Burt v. State
Burt v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The only question of importance presented by this record grows out of the action of the trial judge in overruling appellant’s motion to • quash the special venire demanded nby the defendant. The circuit judge, in conformity with Code 1892, § 2363, as amended by ch. 151, p. 208, Acts 1904, had the special venire drawn from both judicial districts of Perry county, as directed therein. The objection of appellant to this course was overruled, and his request that the special venire he drawn solely from the district in which he had been indicted, and where the trial was being held, denied. Appellant contends that this action constitutes reversible error.
The county of Perry was divided into two judicial districts by act of the legislature approved March 6, 1892 (ch. 116, p. 392, Acts 1892), and that act recites that no person shall be liable to jury duty outside the district in which he lives. It is urged by appellant that this was a special and local law, and not being expressly repealed by adoption of the code of 1892, and being in force prior to the date when that code took effect, therefore it still governs the drawing of juries in Perry county. The answer to this argument is twofold: First — If it was intended by the legislature to adopt this law as a special or local law, then the provision ingrafting an exception upon the general
Tbe ruling of tbe court in admitting tbe testimony of tbe witness, McKenzie, was correct. Tbe testimony being competent, relevant, and admissible, it was for tbe jury to decide what weight should be given it. Nor was it error to permit McKenzie, in rebuttal, to deny that appellant used tbe qualifying phrases testified to. Taken as a whole, tbe proof amply supports tbe verdict.
Affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Jacob C. Burt v. State of Mississippi
- Cited By
- 1 case
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- 1. Jtjbies. Special venire. Local law. Perry county. Laws 1892, ch. 116, p. 392. Constitution 1890, sec. 90 («,). Laws 1892, p. 392, ch. 116, dividing Perry county into two judicial districts, and providing that no person shall be liable to jury duty outside the district in which he lives, if intended as a local or special law, was in contravention of Constitution 1890, sec. 9011, prohibiting special laws with regard to the summoning and impaneling of juries; and the general law governed, which authorized the drawing of a special venire from both judicial districts of such county. 2. Same. Code 1892, l 2363. Lavis 1904, p. 208, ch, 151. If the legislature intended by the act dividing Perry county to simply adopt the general jury law, and make it applicable to the two districts of the county, then, the subject of the act having-bean revised and reenacted in Code 1892, the amendments of the general law subsequently adopted (Laws 1904, p. 208, ch. 151, amending Code 1892, § 2363), authorizing a jury to be drawn from both districts, apply to the judicial districts of Perry county.