Klaise v. State

This is a kindred case to that of Owens, plaintiff in error, v. The State, defendant in error, just decided [ante, p. 456]. It was a prosecution, for assault and battery, charged to have been committed within the limits of the city of Mineral Point, in the county of Iowa, before a justice of the peace of that *463city, and taken by appeal to the circuit court, to which this writ of error was issued. The decision in this court depends upon the same provisions in the charter of the city of Mineral Point which are recited in the opinion in the Owens case. The circumstances of this case, so far as…