McClain v. State

Defendant appealed from conviction of violation of the age of consent and sentence to three years in the penti-tentiary.

When at the Jackson Term 1947, the case was set, suggestion of diminution was made and we granted certiorari.

On the remand from the supplementary transcript filed in accordance with the procedendo, it appears that no final judgment containing sentence and no judgment overruling motion for new trial were entered on the minutes during the tenure of office of the Judge before whom the case was tried.

However, on the remand, a memorandum in the handwriting of that Judge was…