Oliver v. Crawford

Grice, Justice.

The February term of the city court convened on February 9, 1942. Business was transacted, and on the following day the judge announced from the bench that an adjourned term of the court would be held on the third Monday in March (March 16), 1942, and an order to that effect was entered on the minutes. On March 18 the defendant, having pleaded not guilty, was tried, convicted, and sentenced. It is his insistence here, though he made no such contention at the time, that the court was not legally in session on the day he was tried and sentenced, and therefore that his conviction…