54 So. 665 | Miss. | 1910
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, Thelma Collins, was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, and appeals to this court.
The appellant made an application for a continuance on account of the absence of two witnesses. When this application came up for hearing, the court called the appellant to the witness stand,' and had her sworn, and
The common law, since trial by jury was secured by Magna Charta, the twenty-sixth section of our Constitution, and various criminal statutes of this state, guarantee to a person charged with a crime a fair trial by an impartial jury. This guaranty is to every person, high •or low, rich or poor, guilty or innocent. The appellant in this case was denied this right. Here we have the judge, in the presence of the jury before whom the appellant was to be tried, by the character of questions put to
Reversed and remanded.