State v. Bragg
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Adair Circuit Court. — Hon. Nat. M. Shelton, Judge. Defendant filed his hill of exceptions as soon as the stenographer would make his record. Both court and counsel intended the record of extensions of time to he regular, hut it seems the Attorney-General’s abstract of record shows it was missed one day. Notwithstanding this, if upon the record or if upon a review of the record proper, the case can be reversed, it ought to be done.
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Appeal from Adair Circuit Court. — Hon. Nat. M. Shelton, Judge. Defendant filed his hill of exceptions as soon as the stenographer would make his record. Both court and counsel intended the record of extensions of time to he regular, hut it seems the Attorney-General’s abstract of record shows it was missed one day. Notwithstanding this, if upon the record or if upon a review of the record proper, the case can be reversed, it ought to be done. Defendant, having failed to file the bill within the time required, can not have the errors, alleged to have occurred during the progress of the trial,…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
— On the 28th day of July, 1904, at the May adjourned term of the circuit court of Adair .county, the defendant was convicted of seducing one Ethel May Sewell under promise of marriage, and his punishment fixed at six months in the county jail and a fine of one thousand dollars, under an information filed by the prosecuting attorney of said county charging him with said offense. In due time defendant filed *588motions for a new trial and in arrest, which were overruled, and he appeals.
After several extensions by the court of the time given defendant within which to file his bill of exceptions,…
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