People v. Burnham

We think the special county judge had power to allow the appeal. Laws 1849, page 437, chap. 306, as amended by Laws 1851, p. 192, c. 108, § 2, provides that special county judges in the county of St. Lawrence, and the other counties specified in the act, “ shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties which are possessed and can be performed *205by a county judge out of court.” This act was framed in pursuance of section 16, art. 6, of the Constitution. It has not been expressely repealed, and we do not think that the subsequent legislation respecting appeals from judgments of special…