Board of Education of Escambia County v. Watts

SAMEORD, J,

The first contention is that Judge A. E. Gamble, judge of the Second judicial circuit, who presided at the trial, was without legal right to do so, for the reason that he was requested to hold the court in Escambia county by Hon. John D. Leigh, the presiding judge of the circuit, instead of having been designated by some other metnod prescribed in other statutes. It has too long been the accepted law of this state, to now admit of controversy, that circuit judges have and may exercise the same official authority and power in any county of this state and that their jurisdiction is…