115 P. 426 | Or. | 1911
delivered the opinion of the court.
The constitution of the State, as it existed at and prior to the filing of the indictment, declared that “there shall be elected in each county, for the term of four years, a county judge, who shall hold the county court at times to be regulated by law. The county court shall have the jurisdiction pertaining to probate courts, and boards
Under the statute last quoted, the regular June term of the county court of Morrow County began on Tuesday, June 2, 1908; the first Monday of that month being a nonjudicial day on account of the general election then being held.
Section 978, L. O. L., declares that “if no judge attend on the day appointed for holding a court, before four o’clock in the afternoon, the court shall stand adjourned until the next day at nine o’clock; and if no judge attend
Seeing that the order was actually made on the eleventh day after the election, it was not necessary, for the purposes of this case, to consider the effect of the words “or as soon thereafter as practicable,” as affecting the date provided for holding the “special session” of the county court.
We conclude that the order of the county court, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within Morrow County as a whole, was regularly made as provided by law, and that the conviction of the defendant was a proper legal conclusion resulting from the facts stipulated.
The judgment is affirmed. Affirmed.