Carter v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

This prosecution originated in the Justice of the Peace Court, which under the Statute, Code 1940, Tit. 13, § 417, had jurisdiction to try the case wherein the accused was charged with the offense of operating a motor vehicle on the public highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquors, etc. Upon said trial he was convicted as charged and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the county jail for twelve months. An appeal was taken, and perfected from said judgment to the circuit court, where he was tried upon a complaint filed by the Solicitor, the trial…