State v. Hassan, 962 N.W.2d 210

Hassan was charged in county court with drug offenses after police found drugs in a vehicle; he was released pending proceedings.
A September 3 journal entry ordered Hassan to appear for a preliminary hearing on October 24 and warned of consequences for failure to appear.
Hassan did not appear on October 24; the county court issued a bench warrant that day; law enforcement arrested Hassan on Monday, October 28.
The State relied on exhibit 7 (county court records including the order, a notation of nonappearance, the bench warrant, and a warrant return) to prove the failure-to-appear charge under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-908.
Hassan objected to exhibit 7 as hearsay (challenging admission under the public‑records exception) and argued insufficiency of evidence because the 3‑day surrender period should be computed under the time-computation statute, Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-2221.
The jury acquitted Hassan of the possession charges, convicted him of failure to appear, and the district court sentenced him to 10 days (with credit for time served).

Issue	State's Argument	Hassan's Argument	Held
Admissibility of county court records (exhibit 7) under hearsay/public‑records exception	Parts of the records are admissible (and may qualify under public‑records exception); the court order is legally operative	Exhibit 7 is hearsay and not admissible under the public‑records exception (lack of notice/duty proof)	The journal entry ordering appearance is a verbal act (not hearsay); an objection to an exhibit as a whole may be overruled if part is admissible, so admission was not erroneous
Computation of § 29‑908’s 3‑day surrender period: does § 25‑2221 extend the period to Monday?	§ 25‑2221 should not apply here; the 3‑day requirement is not an act "in any action or proceeding" so compute plain calendar days	§ 25‑2221 applies; excluding the day of the act and extending when last day is a weekend makes Monday within the 3‑day window, so arrest on Monday shows no violation	§ 25‑2221 applies only to acts "in any action or proceeding"; surrender to law enforcement is not an act in the proceeding, so compute 3 calendar days. More than 3 days elapsed (Thurs→Mon), so sufficient evidence supported conviction

State v. Draganescu, 276 Neb. 448 (standard of review for hearsay rulings)
State v. Price, 306 Neb. 38 (standard for sufficiency review of convictions)
State v. Poe, 292 Neb. 60 (definition and rule on hearsay and non‑hearsay uses)
State v. McCave, 282 Neb. 500 (verbal acts are not hearsay)
State v. Valdez, 236 Neb. 627 (elements required to convict under § 29‑908)
State ex rel. Wieland v. Beermann, 246 Neb. 808 (prior discussion of applying § 25‑2221)