Jones v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of pursuing the business of selling intoxicating liquors, and prosecutes this appeal.

This conviction occurred in March, 1912, yet the transcript was not filed in this court until January 25, 1915,—nearly three years after the judgment of conviction in the trial court. The clerk writes a letter in which he states that this occurred through an oversight that he can not account for. It is just such cases as this which has brought about the “cry of delay in criminal cases.” If this transcript had been forwarded to this Court in the time provided by the law,…