State v. Benson

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Defendant was charged with maliciously injuring personal property not bis own, of tbe value of $20 — a misdemeanor. (Sec. 11474, Rev. Codes 1921.) Tbe complaint was originally filed before John Griffin, a justice of tbe peace at Chinook, Blaine county. Defendant appeared and entered a plea of not guilty and thereafter filed a disqualifying affidavit against Griffin, and the case was transferred to the justice’s court at Turner. Defendant appeared in that court and objected to the jurisdiction of the court, and the justice ordered the case and all files…