Wright v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the judgment of Hon. J. H. Mather, judge of the Elkhart Court of Common Pleas.
1Opinion of the CourtHovey, J.
On the 11th of October, 1853, Fleming Wright was indicted for murder in the Elkhart Circuit Court. To this indictment he plead not guilty, and on the 14th of October a jury was impanneled to try the charge. The trial progressed until the succeeding Saturday, when the Court, holding that the legal term expired on that day, and being satisfied that the trial could not be closed on that day, discharged the jury, notwithstanding the objections of the prisoner, who insisted that the trial should proceed to its conclusion. The Court thereupon remanded the prisoner to jail, and ordered a venire de…
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