Town of Laporte City v. Goodfellow
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blade Hcnde District Gowrt. On the 23d day of August, 1876, there was filed before J. Wasson, Mayor of the town of Laporte City, a duly incorporated town in Black Hawk.county, an information, duly sworn to by one A. Cotton, as follows: “ The defendant is accused of the crime of misdemeanor, for that, on the 22d day of August, 1876, at the town of Laporte.
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Appeal from Blade Hcnde District Gowrt. On the 23d day of August, 1876, there was filed before J. Wasson, Mayor of the town of Laporte City, a duly incorporated town in Black Hawk.county, an information, duly sworn to by one A. Cotton, as follows: “ The defendant is accused of the crime of misdemeanor, for that, on the 22d day of August, 1876, at the town of Laporte. City, Black Hawk county, Iowa, he did willfully and wrongfully make use of loud, violent, profane and offensive language, to the disturbance and annoyance of tbe citizens of said town and against the peace and quiet of said town…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.:The only question presented by the argument of appellant is whether it is necessary that the information i pbuadmtg: should refer to the ordinance alleged to have been dioiai notice' violated by its title and the date of its passage. Section 506 of the Code of 1873 provides: “The mayor of each city or incorporated town shall be a magistrate and conservator of the peace, and within the same have the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace in all matters civil or criminal arising under the laws of the State or the ordinances of said city or *574town, and the rules of law regulating…
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