Pool v. State

Appellant, Jim Pool, was tried in a justice of the peace court on a charge of grand larceny, and a judgment was entered finding him guilty, as charged, and sentencing him to pay a fine of fifty dollars and serve ninety days in jail, from which judgment he prosecuted an appeal to the circuit court. At a later term of the circuit court his appeal was dismissed with a writ of procedendo, the judgment of dismissal merely reciting that, “The appeal herein is dismissed with a writ of procedendo to the court below to enforce its judgment,” and taxing the appellant with the costs of the appeal.

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