Long v. State
Long v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case originated in the court of a justice of the peace and was appealed to the circuit court. In that court it was agreed
We are not able to resist the conclusion that injustice was done the appellant by this proceeding. Her attorneys show that they were unfamiliar with her place of residence, and both the mails and the telephone were employed in a vain effort to get into communication with her. We think the justice of the cause demands that the case be reinstated and tried on its merits.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Mary B. Long v. State of Mississippi
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- Criminal Law. Continuance. Absence of defendant. A judgment of the circuit court in a criminal case dismissing an appeal from a justice’s court, because of defendant’s absence, is erroneous where she departed from tbe court upon the case being continued for the term, and her counsel had been unable after reasonable efforts to advise, her of a subsequent order setting aside the continuance. •