Brasham v. State

Hardy Brasham and ~W. P. Price appeal from a conviction on a charge of having intoxicating liquors in their possession. The prosecution of the case started in a justice of the peace court where appellants were convicted, from which they appealed to the circuit court, and there they were again convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of three hundred dollars and serve a jail sentence.

The main point urged for reversal is that the justice of the peace failed to certify his record to the circuit court; and, since the circuit court was without jurisdiction to try the case because the record was not…