Lee v. State

Appellant contends, as one assignment of error, that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction to try this case upon its merits, because the state failed to produce in evidence, on the trial, the transcript of the record of the proceedings in the justice of the peace court, or any essential part thereof. The contention is not well taken. It is true that on appeals to the Circuit Court from the justice of the peace courts in both civil and criminal cases, it is necessary that a certified transcript of the record of the proceedings in the justice court be filed in the Circuit Court, to confer on…