Burt v. State

Citations

• 86 Miss. 280

Syllabus

<p>1. Jtjbies. Special venire. Local law. Perry county. Laws 1892, ch. 116, p. 392. Constitution 1890, sec. 90 («,).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>2. Same. Code 1892, l 2363. Lavis 1904, p. 208, ch, 151.</p> <p>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.</p>