State ex rel. Plummer v. Gideon

The petition in this case, on which the alternative writ of mandamus was granted, states substantially the following facts: That the relator stood indicted in the Christian county circuit court, charged with the crime of murder in the first degree; that his trial was set for the second day of the August term of said court, 1893, he having been indicted at the previous February term and his cause continued for for want of time to try the same; that the relator, some days before his case was set for trial, and before the *95beginning of said term of court, in order that be might prepare himself to…