Wilson v. People

Per Cdriam.

The plaintiff in error brought his case here to reverse a sentence of a fine imposed upon him in the district court. On December 6,1897, his writ of error was dismissed for want of prosecution. Two days thereafter the attorney general entered into a stipulation with his counsel *376consenting that the cause should he reinstated, and that he might have a certain time for filing abstracts and briefs. No order of court was entered upon this stipulation, though in the clerk’s docket is a memorandum that a reinstatement was allowed. If, however, the stipulation had ripened into an order of…