State v. Williams
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from the police court of Northumberland. The defendant was convicted in the police court upon his plea of not guilty to a complaint charging him with keeping for sale lager beer aud fermented cider, and-sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs.
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Appeal, from the police court of Northumberland. The defendant was convicted in the police court upon his plea of not guilty to a complaint charging him with keeping for sale lager beer aud fermented cider, and-sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs. Fropr this conviction and seutence the defendant appealed, and having entered his appeal in the supreme court, moved to dismiss the same, claiming that the judgment appealed from was unauthorized and void, aud that police courts have not jurisdiction to hear and determine, upon a plea of not guilty, any off.ence arising under c. 112, P.…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
Whether s. 28, c. 112, P. S., is modified by c. 117, Laws 1895, and whether that act is void because of constitutional limitations, are questions which it is not necessary to consider in the present ease. It is conceded that the legislature had constitutional power to confer the jurisdiction exercised in the present case; and that by the general provisions of the Public Statutes, ■c. 248, ss. 8-7, such jurisdiction is conferred upon police courts unless the general authority there given over “ any prosecution •or action of a criminal nature ” does not extend to cases under c. 112, because of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hitchins v. PettingillSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1878
- State v. PerkinsSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1884
- State v. ThorntonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1884
3Cited by3 opinions
- District of Columbia v. SimpsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1913
- State v. JacksonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1898
- McQuade v. ManchesterSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1900