State v. Taylor

PARKER, Judge.

The judgment appealed from was dated 3 September 1971. On the same date, Judge Blount, the trial judge, signed appeal entries allowing defendant 60 days to prepare and serve case on appeal. On 18 November 1971, Judge Thornburg, the judge presiding over the courts of the Sixteenth Judicial District, signed an order providing as follows:

“[T]hat defendant be, and he is hereby allowed sixty additional days after 3 December, 1971, to prepare and serve case on appeal upon the State, and the State is allowed twenty days thereafter to prepare and serve countercase.”

We call attention to…