Tennessee Supreme Court March 15, 1836 (Grove & Jenkins v. Campbell)

TüRLEV, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was commenced before a justice of the peace, and taken by appeal to the circuit court. On the trial, the defendant offered to prove that at the time the summons from the justice was executed on him, he was attending court as juror; this testimony the court refused to hear. Is there error in this determination? We think not, for two reasons.