State v. Hargis
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Cloud district court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Porter, J.:
The defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction under the prohibitory liquor law.
The principal claim of error, and indeed the only one which requires discussion, is that the court had no jurisdiction to try him for the offense charged at the time it did, because the regular term of the court had lapsed or been adjourned and the trial was not held at a regular or special term. The regular term commenced on the first Monday in April, according to section 2420 of the General Statutes of 1909 (Laws 1909, ch. Ill, § 1). This was April 4,…
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