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32 Tenn. 554

Mitchell v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1852

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1852-12-15

At the October Term, 1852, of the circuit court of White county, Goodall., Judge, presiding, Mitchell was convicted, as stated in the opinion, and he thereupon appealed in error.

Decided 1852-12-15

Totten, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of .the court.

¶2The defendant, Mitchell, an overseer of a road, was indicted and convicted for not keeping- the road in proper repair.

¶31. He removed, after his appointment, from the bounds of that road into the bounds of another. This is no excuse; he should have returned the order of his appointment, and moved the court, for sufficient cause, to discharge him from his office.

¶4Having failed to do so, he remained liable to perform its duties, no other overseer being appointed.

¶52. The order did not specify the bounds within which persons were subject to work under said overseer; but it *555says be was to have tbe same list and bounds of bands that worked under James Taylor, late overseer.” Tbis made tbe former order a part of tbe present order, and is sufficiently certain; and besides, tbe proof shows that tbe overseer “proceeded to tbe performance of tbe duties of bis office,” and that is a waiver of any irregularity in tbe order, if, in fact, one existed; 1819, ch. 26 § 3.

¶6Affirm tbe judgment.

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