Combs v. State

Combs was indicted and convicted in the Marion Criminal Circuit Court, for a felony committed by him. It is claimed that the acts of the legislature creating that court and conferring upon it its jurisdiction are unconstitutional. This presents the only question involved in the case.

The legislature, on the 20th of December, 1865, passed an act amending sections two and five of the act organizing circuit courts,. approved June 1, 1852, and providing for criminal and civil circuit courts, in which it is provided, among other things, that a criminal circuit-court shall be organized and held in…