State v. Lewis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The defendant, George Lewis, was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors, and appeals. He contends that he was not brought to trial before the end of the third term of the court in which the cause was pending after the information was filed, that the delay did not happen on his application and was not occasioned by want of time to try the cause at such third term (Crim. Code, § 221), and consequently that his motion for an order of discharge, filed at the fourth term of court, should have been sustained.

The first term at which the cause was…