65 P. 664 | Kan. | 1901
Stephen G. Elliott was convicted of a felony at the September term of the district court of Wilson county for 1899. Upon appeal to this court the judgment of conviction was affirmed. (The State v. Elliott, 61 Kan. 518, 59 Pac. 1047.) , The conviction was had on the verdict of eleven jurors only. The defendant consented to a verdict by such number, but that consent is not binding on him. (The State v. Simons, 61 Kan. 752, 60 Pac. 1052.) The record of 'the petitioner’s conviction, as made at the September term of the court for 1899, did not show a trial and verdict by less than the required number of jurymen. At the February term of the court for 1901, a supplemental bill of exceptions in the original case of The State v. Elliott was settled and allowed. In that bill of exceptions the fact of the defendant’s conviction on the verdict of eleven jurors was recited, but the court refused to correct the original journal entry of conviction to conform to the fact, upon the ground that such correction “would not be in furtherance of justice.” The motion of the defendant to make the correction, although admitted in the bill of exceptions to be in conformity to the actual fact, was nevertheless overruled. A transcript of the bill of exceptions is before us as evidence in this case. It is a part of the record of the case, notwithstanding it was not made a part of the original bill of exceptions brought here upon appeal. (3 Encyc. Pl. & Pr. 487, 488.) We, therefore, have a record showing the unauthorized conviction of the defendant.
-The mere refusal of the court'below to correct the entry of verdict and judgment to conform to the fact is immaterial. Notwithstanding such refusal, it made
The petitioner is entitled to be released from the custody of the warden of the state penitentiary. He will be, therefore, delivered to the sheriff of Wilson county, Kansas, to be returned to that county for such proceedings against him in the district court as may be proper.
