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- Title: City of Wichita v. Houchens
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 07, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This prosecution was commenced in the police court of the city
of Wichita, charging defendant (appellant), Edgar N. Houchens,
with violation of the penal code of that city. He was tried and
convicted for the offense as charged. Thereafter, as authorized
by G.S. 1949, 13-611, he appealed to the district court of
Sedgwick county from the order and judgment of the police court. Defendant's case, on appeal, first appeared on the docket of
the district court the first day of the April term, 1958, the
seventh day of April. On that date counsel for defendant appeared
at the statutory call of the docket and announced ready for
trial. Defendant's case, along with approximately two hundred
other police court appeal cases, was continued until April 9 at
10:00 a.m. On the latter date, prior to his call of the docket,
the court stated:
"This docket is getting rather difficult. I want
you to understand that we set the cases on a day
certain. If no appearances are made the cases will be
remanded and not reinstated. There is no other way to
handle the volume and the problems on the docket. We
will try to avoid you not having to make any more
appearances than necessary.
"All cases that were set for this morning will now
be called and after they have been called we will
then determine the order of trial."
The court then proceeded to call the list of cases, regarding
which various announcements and dispositions were made. However,
when the case in question was called, neither defendant nor his
[184 Kan. 298]
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