Carter v. State

The plaintiff in error complains of the refusal to

pass an order discharging him, and the only question involved-in the assignment of error is whether or not an adjourned session of the second term of court after a-demand for trial was entered on the minutes comes within the meaning of “the next succeeding term thereafter,” as used in section 983 of the Penal Code. The judges of the superior courts have the right to adjourn any term of the court to a future day at discretion, and they may cause new jurors to be drawn or order the jurors for the regular term to give their attendance Upon the…