State v. . Craton

The counsel for the prisoner assigned as an error in the judgment that it does not appear by the record that the prisoner was personally present in court at the time of the trial and sentence passed. The record sets forth the indictment found at February Term, 1845, and then "the prisoner, John P. Craton, appearing at the bar and pleads not guilty," and he is thereupon committed to close custody. At August term following, the record states that "It is ordered by the court that the prisoner, John P. Craton, be brought to the bar," and immediately thereafter it states that the jury were sworn…