Horne v. State

The appellant was charged hy information with having enticed a female under the age of eighteen to a place for lewd or immoral purposes. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 41-3217. At the trial, during the November, 1950, term of court, the jury found the accused guilty and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for three years. Extensions of time for the filing of a motion for a new trial were granted, and it happened that it was not until the November, 1951, term of court that a formal judgment was entered upon the verdict. It is now insisted that after the lapse of the term in which the verdict was…