Harris v. Early County

Atkinson, Justice.

Whatever considerations of public policy may have influenced the General Assembly in requiring subpoenas for non-resident witnesses in criminal cases, who are desired to testify on behalf of the State, to be signed by the solicitor-general of the circuit before they were issued by the clerk, it nevertheless was so enacted; and accordingly, section 3845 of the code provides that “no subpoena for a non-resident witness for the State shall be issued, unless the same shall be signed by the clerk of the court and the solicitor-general of the circuit.” The evident purpose of the…