State v. . Perry
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for receiving stolen goods, tried before Watts, J., at Spring Term 1870 of Eeanklin Court. The defendant was charged with having received ten pounds of bacon, of the value of six pence, knowing it to have been stolen: Having been convicted, upon motion the judgment was arrested for want of jurisdiction. The Solicitor for the State appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtDick, J.
The question as to the extent of the jurisdiction of the Superior Courts and of Courts of Justices of the Peace in criminal matters, was fully considered and determined in the case of State v. Jerry Johnson, ante, 581.
In certain offenses specified by statute, the party injured in person or property has an election to prosecute the offender in either of said Courts. A Justice of the Peace has not exclusive jurisdiction of the offence of receiving stolen goods under the value of five dollars. He may exercise such jurisdiction, and his action may be final, where the offense was committed in his…
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