Pfister v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Tried before Hon. S. E. Gbeene. Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of grand larceny in stealing a watcb and chain alleged to be gold. The defendant objected to be put to a trial for tbe above offense , on the 22nd day of February, tbe day tbe case was called for trial, on tbe ground that such day was a legal holiday— dies non júridicus. 'The objection was overruled.
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Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Tried before Hon. S. E. Gbeene. Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of grand larceny in stealing a watcb and chain alleged to be gold. The defendant objected to be put to a trial for tbe above offense , on the 22nd day of February, tbe day tbe case was called for trial, on tbe ground that such day was a legal holiday— dies non júridicus. 'The objection was overruled. There was evidence tending to 'show that the watch case was not solid gold, and was not considered a gold watch case among jewellers, although such a case was generally called gold by…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
There is nothing in the objection that the defendant was tried on the 22nd February, a legal holiday. Holidays with us are not, on that account, non-judicial days. Belmont Coal & R. R. Co. v. Smith, 74 Ala. 206 ; State v. Ricketts, 74 N. C. 187; Reid v. State, 53 Ala. 402.
The defendant was indicted for the larceny of a gold watch and watch chain. The proof was that the case of the watch was composed of a metal ten carats of - gold and fourteen of alloy, and that such watch was not considered a gold watch among jewellers, but that the people generally called such case a gold case.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
- State v. . RickettsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1876
- Reid v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
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- Lavender v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
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