State v. Forner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

These cases differ in but one respect from that of The State v. Taylor, ante, p. 417, with which they were submitted. An additional claim of error is based upon the failure of the state to have appellants arraigned.

The authorities differ upon the question whether in prosecutions for misdemeanors arraignment is required. (2 Encyc. Pl. & Pr. 764, and cases cited.) The modern tendency is toward relaxing the severity of the ancient rules in criminal trials, especially in the lesser grades of felonies and in misdemeanors. Our criminal procedure…