James v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The constitution of this State, section 6, provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, except by due process of law; and, as has been, often stated, “it is the manifest purpose of this provision to accord to the citizen security against, the arbitrary action of those in authority, and to place him under the protection of the ‘law of the land/' which is synonymous with the expression, ‘due process of law/ ”

In order that it may be affirmatively ascertained that due process of law prevails in every criminal case, the statute makes it incumbent…