State Ex Rel. Adams v. Hammitt

The appellant was prosecuted by affidavit filed in the City Court of Portland, Indiana, charging a misdemeanor. He entered a plea of guilty on which judgment was rendered. He did not appeal therefrom. The record affirmatively shows that he was in the city court attempting to file a paper in the case three days after the judgment was rendered, and no excuse is shown why he did not pray an appeal. Eighteen days after the rendition of the judgment by the city court he filed an action in the Jay .Circuit Court, in which he asked that court to mandate the city court to either set aside its…