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NATCHEZ BANK CASE
Court Overrules Defense Objections to Four Members of Jury. Natchez.-Objections made by counsel for A. G. Campbell, former president of the defunct First National Bank, to four members of the jury were overruled by the court, and the taking of testimony was begun against the accused banker, who is charged with receiving deposits in an insolvent institution. The chancery clerk was the first state witness. The recording charter and amendments of the bank were read, in an endeavor to prove it legally incorporated. L. P. Conner, receiver of the bank, on the stand read the mniutes from the records of the bank regarding its Incorporation in the state, showing by documentary evidence also that A. G. Campbell signed all documents as president of the bank. Probably the state was anticipating a contention by the defense that the bank was not legally incorporated and was an unlimited partnership. Fifteen witnesses were called by the state. C. F. Engle, one of the attorneys for the defense, is ill.
