Case ID: tenn_68/html/0241-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Freeman, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State of Tennessee v. E. H. Phelan et al.
    
    CrimuíAL Law. Judgments and decrees. Nolle prosequ/i. Nrror to set aside. When. A nolle prosequi was entered at one term of the court through mistake. During that term, in the absence of defendant, it was set aside, and the case reinstated on the docket. At the next term the defendant moved to set aside the order reinstating the cause, which was done. Held: this was error.
    EROM GIBSON.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court. G. B. Black, Judge.
    Attoeney-General Heiskell for the State.
    W. A. Cooper for Phelan.
   Freeman, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

A nolle prosequi was entered at one term of the court under a mistake. During that term, in the absence of the defendant, this was set aside, and the case reinstated on the docket. At next term the defendants moved to set aside the order reinstating the cause, which was done. This was error. The court had no power to review its own judgment at a subsequent term of the court. It was not such action in the case as required the presence of the defendants in court.

Reverse the case, and remand for further proceedings.