7 Wis. 661 | Wis. | 1859
By the Court,
In this case, it appears that the plaintiff in error was convicted on a criminal prosecution for an assault and battery and breach of the peace before the police justice of the city of La Crosse, late on Saturday evening of the 31st of October last. Early on the following Monday morning he perfected an appeal iff the case to the circuit court of that county. At the next term of the circuit court, the appeal was dismissed on motion, for the reason that it was not taken in time and properly perfected under the statute. The objection to the appeal is understood to be that it was not perfected within the twenty-four hours next following the conviction.
We find that in civil cases when an act is required by statute to be done in a given number of days less than a week, courts have adopted this rule, and exclude in the computation •
These observations dispose of this and the next case on the calendar, which involves the same question.
The orders of the circuit court dismissing the appeal in the two cases must therefore be reversed, and the causes be remanded for further proceedings according to law.