110 So. 368 | Miss. | 1926
We are convinced the amended statute limiting the time to six months within which to appeal is prospective and not retrospective in its effect, and that the statute means that all appeals are to be prosecuted within six months *161 after the rendition of the judgment, but that the statute applies only to judgments rendered after its passage and approval. To put it in different words, we say the statute was intended to affect appeals only from judgments rendered after its passage and approval, and that judgments rendered before the approval of the amended act are not controlled by it, except that appeals from such judgments must be prosecuted within the prescribed six months' period immediately following the passage and approval of the amended statute.
The appeal here involved was prosecuted within the six months' period after the passage and approval of the statute in question, and therefore the motion to dismiss must be overruled.
Motion overruled.