State v. McConnell

By an act of the General Assembly, passed on the-14th of March, 1873, and taking effect from its passage, entitled “An act to create and establish the sixteenth judicial circuit in this State,” a new judicial circuit was established, one county of which, namely Overton county, was taken from the fifth judicial circuit. By the fifth section of the same act, the county of Trousdale was detached from the seventh and attached to the fifth judicial circuit, and by the seventh section the Judge and Attorney General of the fifth circuit were assigned to hold and attend the courts-of that county.

The…