Wilson v. State

Decided August 15, 1835

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1835-08-15

The plaintiff in error, Wilson, was indicted at the January sessions, 1833, of the county court of Fentress county, for an assault and battery, and was convicted. The indictment was signed by William B. Richardson, as attorney general pro tempore.

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Decided 1835-08-15

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Catron, Ch. J.

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The only question presented by the record is, had the county court power to appoint a pro tempore attorney for the State? This court can only re affirm what it said in Douglass vs. The State, (6 Yerg. 528.)

¶3That the act of 1817 provides for such a case, as the record sets forth, and that the State can employ counsel to do her business if the regular officer is unable to do so, or there be none, cannot be questioned: other corporations, the smallest, have such powers, and it is a strained assumption that the government wants it. íhe judgment will be affirmed.

¶4Judgment affirmed.