Brown v. State

• Decision Date: 06 February 1928
• Docket Number: 26905
• Citation: 115 So. 436,149 Miss. 219
• Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
• Parties: BROWN v. STATE. [*]

115 So. 436

149 Miss. 219

BROWN v. STATE. ^[*]

No. 26905

Supreme Court of Mississippi

February 6, 1928

Division B

1 JUDGES. Party may waive judge's disqualification through financial interest; party proceeding without objection to judge because of financial interest waives disqualification (Constitution 1901, section 165).

Under section 165 of the state Constitution of 1901, a judge having financial interest in a litigation is disqualified to proceed therein, but a party may waive such disqualification and proceed with the trial before such judge; and, if he does so without objection to the judge sitting, his consent thereto constitutes a waiver.

2. CRIMINAL LAW. Objection to judge for financial interest must be made in court over which he presides, and cannot be first made on appeal (Constitution 1901, section 165).

An objection to the judge sitting in a cause, on the ground of disqualification, must be made in the court over which such judge presides, and cannot be raised for the first time in the circuit court on appeal. Bryant v. State (Miss.), 112 So 675.

3. CRIMINAL LAW. Evidence obtained by search or seizure, on information amounting to probable cause, is admissible in criminal prosecution; in prosecution for possession of intoxicating liquor, evidence obtained by attempted arrest, on information constituting probable cause, without warrant, held admissible (Constitution 1901, section 23).

Where a sheriff, acting upon information amounting to probable cause, searches or seizes property without a search warrant, and objection is made to the admission of evidence, and where the court inquires into the sufficiency of evidence to constitute probable cause, and where the facts disclosed by such inquiry are sufficient to constitute probable cause, the evidence is admissible on prosecution of such offense.

HON. R. S. HALL, Judge.

APPEAL from circuit court of Perry county. HON. R. S. HALL, Judge.

Sam Brown was convicted of the possession of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.

E. W. Breland, for appellant.

Rufus Creekmore, Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.

OPINION

ETHRIDGE, P. J.

The appellant, Sam Brown, was tried at the September, 1927, term of the circuit court of Perry county, on a charge of having liquor in his possession. He was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars and to serve thirty days in jail.

In the circuit court, for the first time, the appellant filed a plea to the jurisdiction of the justice court, alleging, under the decision of the case of Ed Tumey v. State of Ohio, 273 U.S. 510, 47 S.Ct. 437, 71 L.Ed. 749, 50 A. L. R. 1243, in which a justice of the peace was held disqualified because of his interest in such case, that the defendant was denied due process of law. Plea to the jurisdiction was overruled, and the cause proceeded to trial.

The sheriff was called as a witness, but his testimony was objected to as being unauthorized and inadmissible because of the evidence having been procured without a search warrant in violation of section 23 of the Constitution. The court, upon objection being made, heard the evidence bearing on the matter as to the sufficiency of the probable cause, and admitted it. It appears from the evidence that the sheriff received information that Sam Brown, the appellant, had whisky in his car and would be traveling over a settlement road on the evening in question. Thereupon the sheriff, accompanied by two of his deputies, went to this road and waited for the appellant to come along. In due time, the appellant came along and was ordered by the...