Kirby v. State

Citations

• 78 Miss. 175

Syllabus

<p>Judge. Disqualification. Code 1892, $ 919, Criminal law. District attorney.</p> <p>That the presiding judge had been the district attorney, and drew the statutory ind'ctment for mitrder upon which the defendant was tried, did not disqualify him from presiding in the case, without defendant’s consent, under code 1892, % 919, prohibiting a judge to preside in any case “ wherein he may have been of counsel.”</p>