Kountz v. State

Maxwell, Ch. J.

At the March term, 1877, of the district court of Richardson county the plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the second degree, and ón the seventh day of April of that year was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the period of twenty-five years. On the 19th day of April, 1878, he obtained a writ of error and filed a transcript of the proceedings in the case in this court, and assigns various errors therein. The attorney general now moves to dismiss the proceedings in error because they were not commenced within the period prescribed by law.

At common law,…