Middleton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Carroll—

On motion for time to file transcript.

At the November term, 1919, and on December 16th, there was a judgment in the Knox circuit court sentencing John Middleton to confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of twenty-one years.

On February 14, 1919, counsel for Middleton filed in the clerk’s office, of this court, a copy of the judgment and also a motion in writing to extend the time for filing the transcript of the record in this court to April 8, 1920. In support of this motion, B. B. Golden, the attorney for Middleton, filed at the same…