People v. Hobson

Hobson was convicted before a justice of the peace of Tuscola county, of selling intoxicating liquor ■on a legal holiday, being the 1st day of January, 1880. The judgment, being removed by certiorari to the circuit court of that county, was affirmed. In this court the same errors .are relied on as at the circuit, with the further one that by the repeal of the statute it has been made impossible to ■enforce the sentence, which was stayed on the removal.

It is objected that the justice got no jurisdiction because it is insisted the complaint does not show that Hobson kept such a saloon as the…