Longfellow v. State

Maxwell, Ch. J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted of an assault with intent to commit rape, at the March, 1879, term of the district court of Lancaster county, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He brings the case into this court by writ of error.

It appears from the affidavit of J. A. Marshall, one of plaintiff’s attorneys, that the cause was tried on the tenth day of March, 1879, and that the verdict of the jury was received at 10 or 11 o’clock on the night of that day, and after the court had been duly adjourned to the morning of the eleventh of that month. This affidavit…