State Ex Rel. Skipper v. Bird

Honorable W. J. Barker is Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida in which the County of Highlands is located. The Spring Term of the Circuit Court in that County begins on the first Tuesday in April and the Fall Term begins on the first Tuesday in November.

Judges of the Circuit Court are authorized by the statute to order and hold “extra and special terms” of the court “whenever in their judgment the public welfare and the cause of justice require the same; and the order for such special terms may be made either term time or vacation.” Sec. 4837 Comp. Gen. Laws.

The Governor is…