Palmer v. State

Citations

• 73 Miss. 780

Syllabus

<p>1. Courts. Circuit cou/rt. Terms thereof. Absence of judge. Discontinuance. Code of 1892, 1913.</p> <p>Under ji 914, code of 1892, providing against discontinuances, when, during- a term of the circuit court, the official term of the judg-e thereof expires by limitation, and one day and a part of another elapse before the vacancy is filled and his successor begins to preside, the court being- regularly adjourned by the sheriff from day to day during the interval, the validity of the subsequent proceedings of the term is not affected by the absence of a judge competent to preside during such interval.</p>