State v. McCombs

The defendant was tried before a justice of the peace, upon an information charged with an assault and battery. Being found guilty and fined, he appealed. Trial was had in the District Court with the same result.

Several errors are assigned, which strike at the irregularity of the proceeding before the justice, such as the failure upon the part of the prosecution to have the information read to defendant, or a plea of not guilty to be entered of record by the justice.

*427These questions were all waived by the appeal, and the cause stood for a trial de novo upon its merits in the District Court.…