State v. Clark
Oregon Supreme Court
From Grant: Dalton Biggs, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. By an indictment returned May 10, 1916, at an adjournment of the regular preceding November term of court, the defendants William Clark and Frank Morrisón were jointly charged with the crime of larceny, alleged to have been committed in Grant County, Oregon, October 26, 1914, by taking and driving away a mare, the property of S. V. Cochran and Theresa Cochran.
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From Grant: Dalton Biggs, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. By an indictment returned May 10, 1916, at an adjournment of the regular preceding November term of court, the defendants William Clark and Frank Morrisón were jointly charged with the crime of larceny, alleged to have been committed in Grant County, Oregon, October 26, 1914, by taking and driving away a mare, the property of S. V. Cochran and Theresa Cochran. Two days thereafter and at the adjourned term, these defendants and James Clark were jointly indicted for another like crime alleged to have been committed in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
A clause of the organic law reads in part:
“No court shall be secret, but justice shall be administered openly and without purchase, completely and without delay”: Const. Or., Article I, § 10, of the Constitution.
Pursuant to such declaration, statutes have been enacted as follows:
“If, when the indictment is called for trial, the defendant appears for trial, and the district attorney is not ready and does not show any sufficient cause for postponing the trial, the court must order the indictment to be discharged, unless, being of opinion that the public interests require the indictment to be…
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