People v. Vaughan

This action came on for trial, but the district attorney pleaded that he was not prepared, and could not try the same. Thereupon the defendant Vaughan demanded that the indictment be dismissed as against him, for the reason that this court had, in the month of December, set the case for trial peremptorily for January 4th, and had ordered that, in the event that the district attorney should .not be ready to proceed, the indictment should be dismissed. On the argument of the motion the court thought that it would be an injustice to the people to summarily dismiss the indictment, and it ordered…