Hines v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This writ of eryor brings up a final order of the Supreme Court, by which a writ of error, sued out of that court to reverse a judgment of the Mercer Quarter Sessions, was dismissed for want of prosecution.

In the Sessions the plaintiff in error had been convicted of a misdemeanor, and on July 26th, 1890, she presented a writ of error returnable to the Supreme Court at the November Term, 1890; no return being made, the Supreme Court, in the February Term, 1891, ordered the writ of error to be dismissed for the laches of the plaintiff.

The only…