The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-02

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terminal aud civil circuit court:
should be separate and distinct and
presided over by different judges.
THE reason for this ought to be OBJ
vious at first sight. To put rea-
son In a nutshell, very few, II any,
attorneys are evenly adapted to the
practice of the civil and criminal
laws. It is recognized by all COM
petent attorneys that the laws of
procedure. practice and pleading
are quite different In civil and GRIM
inal cases.
Recommendations Second. There
shall be an assistant district attor-
ney In each county who shall be
the sworn officer of the court whose
duty should be to attend all prelim-
Iinary trials In felony cases. who
should attend all habeas corpus
trials In similar cases, who should
be in daily attendance upon the
grand jury when In session and see
that the witnesses are properly In
terrogated and the true facts
brought out; to advise the grand
jury after evidence and prepare all
indictments under and by the d.
rections of the district attorney,
and who shall also be advisor of
the board of supervisors and repre-
sent the county in all of its busi-
ness and suits; whose further duty
would be to collect the evidence
and assist the district attorney as
far as possible in the trial of cases.
Recommendation Third. There
should be a county stenographer
whose duty should be to attend In
company with the county assistant
district attorney and take down all
evidence In preliminary trials In
felony cases and habeas corpus
trials in his county; to always be
present in the sitting of the grand
jury of his county and take down
the testimony of all witnesses ap-
pearing before that body and tran.
scribe the same when necessary.
Recommendation Fourth. That
grand Jurors are accepted. charged
and sworn in, should hold until
the next regular term of criminal
court in the county. when another
grand jury is empanneled, charged,
accepted and sworn in.
Recommendation Fifth. That
section nine hundred and eighty
eight held in shorter time than
twenty days (o8S) code of 1906
which provides that "A sepecial
term shall not be from the order,
and the clerk of the court shall
give two weeks notice OF the time
of holding the same in some news
paper published in The county,
ETC., be soamended as to allow and
authorize the court by formal order,
issued to the clerk to be entered on
the minutes of the court to call
special session of the court, incIud-
jng the grand jury, not under three
days and without publication what
ever; grand jurors to be served with
notice by sheriff.
Recommendation Sixth. The
state should bealIowed a change of
venue on the same grounds and
principals that the defendant IS
now.
LAS to the selection of the as
sistant of district attorney for each
county, and the county stenog-
rapher. their pay. ect., is matter
that am satisfied the legislature In
Its wisdom would satisfactorily ad-
Just and decide.
81 am satisfied that by the Gre
alton of the two Offices of the
county assistant district attorney
and the county stenographer
much money would be saved to the
different counties.
"The reasons for this belief are
numerous. bat would be too lengthy
to be given in this letter.
The Natchez Fair.
The following letter Is self-ez.
planatory;
Natchez, Aug. I6, 1909.