Casily v. State

The law authorizes the Randolph circuit court to sit four weeks at its regular terms. At the March term of 1869, on the fifteenth day of the term, the appellant and one Samuel Clarke, being confined in jail upon a criminal charge, though not yet indicted, filed their affidavit showing that on account of absent testimony they could not go to trial during that term; and thereupon the court ordered as follows: “It appearing not necessary that said cases should be continued until the next regular term ''of this court, and for the purpose of releasing the county from the expense of supporting said…