Benefield v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Kiowa county, of the crime of sale of a forged evidence of debt, and his punishment fixed by the court at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of four years.

Defendant complains of numerous errors, but to dispose of the case it will only be necessary to consider one of them; that is, that the court erred in overruling his motion to dismiss because the case was not brought to trial at the next term of court and no good cause to the contrary shown for the delay.

It appears from the record that…