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8 Ind. 463

Boggs v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided January 14, 1857

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1857-01-14

<p>A deposition taken in a foreign state will be suppressed, if it appear that no commission was issued by the clerk of the court, pursuant to section 260 of the civil procedure act, authorizing it to be taken.</p> <p>An objection not raised in the court below, wilhnot be noticed by this Court, on appeal.</p>

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Decided 1857-01-14

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Perkins, J.

¶1Prosecution against Boggs for cutting and taking timber from the land of one John Conner without license.

¶2Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury; conviction and fine.

¶3The State took the deposition of said John Conner, then residing at Nashville, Tennessee. The notice was served in Warren county, fourteen days before the deposition was to be taken. It specified that the deposition would be taken before H. W. Haworth, a notary public, at his office in Nashville, Tennessee, or by some other person competent to take it. No commission was issued by the clerk to said Haworth, authorizing him to take the deposition. The deposition was taken in the ab-sense of the defendant. The officer certified that the deponent was sworn “ according to law, to tell the truth, the whole truth,” &e.

¶4It is objected, in this Court, that the State could not take a deposition under the statute, without the consent of the defendant, &c.; but.this objection was not made below, and, hence, cannot be urged here, in this case.

P. A. Chandler, for the appellant.P. C. Gregory, for the appellee.

¶5It was objected below to the deposition, on a motion to suppress, that no commission was issued; that the notice was not long enough, being but fourteen days; that the deposition was taken at the office of a commissioner, in-instead of a notary, as specified in the notice; that it is not certified that the deponent was properly sworn, &c.; but the deposition was admitted, and exception taken. The same objections are urged in this Court.

¶6One of them disposes of the deposition. We think a commission should have been issued by the clerk of the Court pursuant to section 260, 2 R. S. p. 87.

¶7No other objection need be examined.

Per Curiam.

¶8The judgment is reversed with costs. Cause remanded, &c.

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