Steele v. State

¶1IT was held in this case, that so much of the sixth section of the act of the 7th of February, 1831, regulating fees and salaries, as directs the fine assessed upon an indictment for official negligence to be for the use of the informer, is unconstitutional ; and that the judgment on a verdict against the defendant on such indictment, should be for the sum of, &c. for the use of the county seminary.