Kreutner v. State

The act “to regulate and prescribe the method of securing jury trials in civil causes at law and in misdemeanors, and to prescribe how such causes shall be tried without the intervention of a jury and reviewed” (Acts 1915, p. 939), was one of a number of acts passed at the same session of the Legislature through which ran a general purpose to provide a remedy for a situation described by the judiciary recess committee in part as follows:

“Our procedure is almost as varied as the number of courts and burdened by many technicalities which hamper rather than promote justice.” House Journal, vol.…