Case ID: mann-unrep-cas_1/html/0180-01.html
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Author: {"author": "De Blanc, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 6866.
    The State vs. Isham Miles.
    The Act oí 1877, Sees. Acts, p. 55, which confers upon the district judges the power to appoint jury commissioners, is constitutional, the duty thus imposed upon them being judicial.
    Appeal from the District Court for Franklin. Smith, J.
    The Attorney-General for the State. A. W. Moore and Boatner & Elam for Defendant.
    The defendant was convicted of larceny and sentenced to hard labour for two years, and moved in arrCst that the Act of 1877, Sess. Acts. p. 55, under which the jury was drawn, was unconstitutional in that it conferred upon the district judges the power to appoint jury commissioners, and this was in violation of Art. 82, Const. 1868, which forbade any duties or functions being attached to the judges but such as are judicial.
   De Blanc, J.,

delivered the opinion, affirming the judgment.