Gorman v. People

the court.

Plaintiffs in error, James J. Gorman et al. were, convicted in the court below of riot,.and .sentenced to confinement in the county jail of Arapahoe county for the period of sixty days. By an act approved April 19,1889, the court in which the trial of defendants took place was abolished. This act contained no emergency clause, and under our constitution went into effect ninety days after its passage, to wit, on the 18th day of the succeeding month of July. These defendants were sentenced on the next day, July 19th.

*597The pretended judgment in this case cannot be allowed to stand. Where…