State v. Brown

The section of the statute in question was applicable only during a specified period of time which had lapsed when the writ of error came on for a hearing. This being so, the question raised by the exceptions has become moot. It is well settled that Courts are not required to spend time considering controversies which injure no one and which raise nothing but abstract questions for adjudication, unless a matter of great public interest is involved, or unless some other sufficient reason appears.

The appellants contend that the determination of the constitutionality of the section in question…