White v. State

Offense, murder; penalty, forty years in the penitentiary.

The validity of the indictment is questioned because the term of court during which it was returned was held by a special judge who was elected under Article 1887, Revised Statutes, 1925, whereas appellant claims such article was impliedly repealed by an act shown at Page 228 of the General and Special Laws of the Fortieth Legislature, which by its terms divided the State into nine administrative judicial districts and provided among other things in substance that the presiding judge of such administrative districts would have the…