If, heaven forbid, it is a felony case, you will be given a number on the docket, but cases may be plea bargained and go quickly or they may drag on so that number may not mean much. But you have to be there. If you are not, your case is lost, so sometimes I have sat there on the damn bench for days. I don't mind testifying, but I have better things to do than sit over there all day waiting to answer questions for 10 or 15 minutes. Our vacation schedules have to be sent to the courts and they do try to schedule around our days off.
Every officer goes through it and it is a hassle and a problem.
Many fewer houses and, of course, businesses. The mines are not running and that has made the big difference. It used to be like Farmer's Day, crowds of people around, when the shifts changed and hundreds of men were going to and from work. You could hear the roar of shovels and trucks and locomotives and the bangs and booms from the dynamite blasting. It is so different now and it amazes me when people call to complain of noise because of something like a diesel truck that has been left running in town.