Allison v. Commonwealth.

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Reversing.

The appellant, Richard Allison (a colored man), has been adjudged to serve one year in the penitentiary on a conviction of the crime of false swearing, and he is complaining about it. He was indicted on October 16, 1926, and the case was continued from time to time until the October term, 1927, when an order was entered placing it “on the dead docket to be redocketed without notice.” Presumably it was intended to file the indictment away with leave to reinstate. On May 15, 1928, the case was redocketed and set for trial on May 18th, and…