Goodall v. People

Citations

• 123 Ill. 389
• 15 N.E. 171
• 1888 Ill. LEXIS 1027

Syllabus

<p>1. Circuit court of White county—of the terms of that court— August term done away with. The act of June 30, 1885, fixing the terms of the circuit court in the second judicial circuit, fixed the terms in White county on the first Mondays of January, June and October, and on the second Monday of March in each year, and being the latest expression of the legislative will, by implication repealed the act of June 29, 1885, which fixed the terms in that county on the first Mondays of January, June and August, thus doing away with the August term.</p> <p>2. Repeal of statute—by reconstruction of a section. The amendment of a section of a statute, by declaring it shall be amended so as to read as follows, (setting out in words how it shall read,) of necessity-repeals all of the section, as it before stood, which is left out of and is not included in the reading which is written in the amendatory act for the section to have.</p> <p>3. Jurisdiction—out of term time as established by law. A circuit court has no jurisdiction to try one for a criminal offence at a time not provided for by law, or any other time than at a term fixed by law, and a judgment of conviction at an unauthorized term will be reversed.</p>