State v. Larson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action was certified to this court from the district court for Fillmore county, by Farmer, J., after a denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss upon the ground that the city justice had no jurisdiction to determine the action.’
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The defendant was charged with the crime of selling liquor to an habitual drunkard. Upon trial before a city justice, whose jurisdiction was the same as that of án ordinary justice of the *64peace, he was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and the costs of• prosecution, taxed at $105.06; whereupon he appealed to the district court, which certifies to us, by virtue of the provisions of Gen. St. 1878, c. 117, § 11, the objection made by defendant, and overruled in both courts.
1. The statute, (Laws 1887, c. 81, § 1,) under which this prosecution was had, prescribes as punishment for the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Watson v. WardSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
3Cited by3 opinions
- State v. HarrisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
- State v. CowenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1942
- State v. DevineWashington Supreme Court · 1893