Reese v. State

This was an indictment for grand larceny. The cause was submitted to a jury on Friday evening, being the 11th day of the September term of said Court, A. P>. 1856. And at one o’clock on Saturday, the 12th and last day of that term, the jury returned into Court, and Teported that they could not agree. Upon that report the Court discharged them. And therefore the defendant moved that a jury be impanneled immediately, and that he be then put on trial, and that there be no continuance of the cause. The Court refused the motion, on the ground “that the term was too far spent to begin a trial of…