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· 7/15/1847

Croft v. Croft ex'or

Citations

  • 4 Va. 103

How courts have described this case

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  • reasoning that “good cause” was shown by general trial court order continuing all cases until succeeding term that was order within general discretion of trial court
  • concluding, in interpreting the same statute, that good cause was shown where the “accumulation of business rendered] trial impossible” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • describing question of whether to grant a continuance as “vested by law in the trial court”
  • “The right guaranteed by our fundamental law for a ‘speedy’ hearing applies alike to civil and criminal causes.”
  • right to speedy trial not contravened when ‘accumulation of business render [s] trial impossible’
  • right to speedy trial not contravened when “accumulation of business render[s] trial impossible”

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Judges: Baldwin

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