McCauley

By the Court,

The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder at the March term of the district court held in and for the county of Nap^a, and from the judgment rendered on such conviction an appeal is taken to this court. Numerous causes have been urged by counsel for the appellant, as constituting error in the proceedings of the district court, some of which are plausible, but none of which do we deem tenable.

The first point made by the appellant is, that the judge before whom the cause was tried had no authority to preside at the trial, and that, consequently, all the proceedings before him were coram no-njudice and void. This objection is based upon the assumption that the judge, who is conceded to be the legally appointed and qualified judge for the ninth judicial district, had no power to exercise any of the functions of his office beyond the limits of his own district. The argument in support of this proposition is urged upon constitutional grounds solely. So far as statutory authority is concerned, it is not denied that the court was regularly held by an officer exercising the powers conferred upon him by an act of the legislature. The question is, therefore, a…