Calloway v. State

1. The public policy of the State, as evinced by statute, being to require a speedy hearing on writs of error in criminal cases, a case of this class will not be postponed at the instance of parties or counsel except for providential cause, although counsel on both sides consent; and the absence of counsel for the plaintiff in error in attendance upon a conference of his church as a delegate, is not such cause.

2. By the act of September 7,1891 (Acts of 1890-1, vol. 1, p. 108), bills of exceptions in criminal cases, as regards the practice both in the lower court and in the Supreme Court…