City of Kansas v. Clark

— The defendant, prosecuted under an ordinance for keeping a gaming table contrary thereto, was convicted before the recorder, and appealed to the criminal court, where the defendant being acquitted, the city has appealed.

I. -The transcript from the recorder shows the arrest and conviction, on the 30th day of September, 1874, and *589then a few lines below, the granting of an appeal. We will presume, therefore, that the appeal was taken on the day of the arrest and conviction, since it apparently was granted on that day, and since, also, we may well presume that the recorder would not grant an…