State v. Ross

The defendant was charged, by information, with disturbing' the peace of the family of the complaining witness, and fined $1. Before the case was tried, the act authorizing informations for misdemeanor was repealed, and defendant claims that the court in consequence ceased to have jurisdiction over him. But the general act concerning “laws,” etc. (Gen. Stat. 1865, ch. 5, § 7; Wagn. Stat. 895), provides that “ no action, plea or prosecution, civil or criminal, pending at the time any statutory provision shall be repealed, shall be affected by such repeal, but the same shall proceed in all…