Williams v. State

It is said that appellant was convicted at the August, 1936, term of the circuit court of Quitman county, but there is no authentic record before us of that fact or, indeed, that any such term of court was ever held at all.

The facts are that, by law, a term of the circuit court of that county is fixed to begin on the fourth Monday in August for eighteen days. Section 473, Code 1930. On the 15th day of August, 1936, the circuit judge addressed an order to the circuit clerk and sheriff of the county directing them to adjourn the August term of that year until the first Monday in September. On…