State v. Sholl

The defendant was convicted in the District Court of Montgomery County of the crimeiof forgery, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary. From this conviction he appeals, and raises in *508this court the single question whether chapter 137 of the Laws of 1897, which in terms repeals the law creating the eleventh judicial district, is valid. The act, if valid, repeals paragraphs 1998 and 1999 of the General Statutes of 1889 ; the first, creating the eleventh judicial district of the counties of Cherokee, Labette and Montgomery; the second, prescribing the time for holding terms of court in…