Bryan v. Bryan

I concur in the result of this decision with grave doubts as to its correctness; and but for the decisions of this court in Gordon v. McDougall, 84 Miss. 715, 37 So. 298, 5 L. R. A. (N. S.) 355; and Abbay v. Hill, 64 Miss. 340, 1 So. 484, would not consent to this holding. But the result of the decisions by virtue of the re-enactment of two Codes by the Legislature binds us to the construction placed in these decisions of the court by our predecessors. I doubt if these decisions carry us to the limit now placed on the statute and the dispensing with probations by creating a trust. It seems to…