Supreme Court of Florida June 15, 1903 (Peeples v. State)

Maxwell, J.

The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted at a so-called “adjourned term” of the Circuit Court in and for DeSoto county of the crime of cattle stealing. The first question presented by the record for our consideration is that of the authority to hold the term of court at which the conviction was had.

At the regular spring term of the court on March 13th, A. D.