State v. Pace

Appellee was indicted at the March 1949 term of the Circuit Court of Scott County for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor. She filed a plea of former acquittal which was sustained by the lower court and the State appeals.

The judgment upon which the plea is .based was entered on the docket of a justice of the peace. In the docket space for entry of judgment there is printed “This cause coming on to be heard and the court having heard the evidence, it is therefore considered by the court that defendant is . . . ” Immediately following this printed part of the docket the following entry was…