The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-11-29
PREDICTS MUDD[F
in court MATTERS

In recent issue the Reno Journal
has the following to say regarding the
recent changes in this judicial dis
trict, occasioned by the death of Judge
Pike:
"That the detachment of the coun.
ties of Humboldt and Churchill from
the Second Judicial District Court of
Nevada is apt to bring about consid-
erable confusion, with possibly the
notification of the acts and indict-
ments of the grand juries in those
counties and the abatement of all the
civil proceedings filed and disposed Of
on the record of those counties, is the
belief of several lawyers of Reno, and
litigants, as well as malfactors are
awaiting with interest the solution of
the problems presented.
cit is believed that Washoe county
will not be affected by the changes
made for the reason that Washoe
county remains now, as formerly, in
the Second Judicial District of the
state. Now it constitutes the entire
district, whereas formerly it consti-
tuted but a part.
Gin the case of Humboldt county
and Churchill, however, there is a
variance. Humboldt county is now in
the Sixth Judicial District and Church
i'll is now in the Fourth District
whereas before both were in the See
ond Judicial district. Indictments of
record there are now entitled in the
Second Judicial District, while prose
cutions under these indictments will be
attempted in the succeeding titles,
without application from the prisoners
for the change and without the posi-
bility of the change in the jurisdiction
being noted and corrected on the rec
ord.
"In civil cases, proceedings insti.
tuted in the Second District NAV 90
to Judgment in the Fourth or the Sixth
and the variance promises to be fatal.
Judgments obtained in the Second
District cannot be enforced by exeeu-
tion sued out in the Fourth or Sixth
and altogether the lawyers say the
condition is such as though the new
districts had just been born with no
heritage or inheritance from the ju-
dicial history of the past in the dis
trict to which they formerly belonged.
''Tn both Humboldt and Churchill
counties there has been a grand jury
constituted for year as there is said
TO be no terms of court. These grand
iuries, according to the lawyers, are
now without reason or authority for
their existence. Their past indiet-
ments cannot be brought into the re
spective counties, and they cannot
be brought into this county without
the consent and application of the de-
fendant. -
When shown the above article and
asked his opinion in the premises, one
of Humboldt county's prominent at
torneys was inclined 10 think the
Journals position not well taken,
stating:
"The Second Judicial District Court
of the State of Nevada. in and for
Humboldt county, in its local jurisdic-
tion, covered the territory embraced
within the boundaries Of Humboldt
county. The Sixth Judicial District
Court of the State of Nevada, in and
for Humboldt county embraces the
same territory The number of the
district is changed from the Second
to the 'Sixth II is the same court
now as II was before the change oc-
Cured. with the same powers and jur-
isdietion now as before. Under the
statute 'No action or proceeding in a
court of Justice shall be affected by n
vacancy in the office of any or all of
the judges.