State v. McCulla

This complaint, charging the defendant with neglecting to remove a privy vault, declared by the board of aldermen to be a nuisance, was brought in the Police Court of the city of Providence, pursuant to an ordinance of the city. The defendant pleaded in abatement that the Police Court of the city of Providence had no jurisdiction of the offence charged, but that jurisdiction of the offence was in the District Court under the statutes of the State. The case calls for a construction of certain acts of the Genera) Assembly. Pub. Laws R. I. cap. 580, of March 17,1865, empowered the board of…