Bell v. McKinney
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. The town of Chesterville, as incorporated under a special act of the legislature, lies partly in the County of Lee and partly in the County of Pontotoc. The third section of its charter provides “ that the mayor of said town of Chesterville shall, by virtue of his office, be justice of the peace and shall have the same powers and jurisdiction as other justices of the peace in this State.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. The town of Chesterville, as incorporated under a special act of the legislature, lies partly in the County of Lee and partly in the County of Pontotoc. The third section of its charter provides “ that the mayor of said town of Chesterville shall, by virtue of his office, be justice of the peace and shall have the same powers and jurisdiction as other justices of the peace in this State.” W. H. Wagoner, who resides in that part of the town lying in Pontotoc County, was duly elected mayor. E. C. Bell appeared before him…
1Opinion of the CourtArnold, J.
Under article 1, § 31, and article 6, § 24, of the constitution, which provide that the legislature may establish in addition to the courts designated in the constitution other inferior courts, and in cases of the misdemeaóors therein enumerated may dispense with the inquest of a grand jury and authorize prosecutions before justices of the peace or such other inferior, courts as may be so *191established, it is competent for the legislature to invest the mayor of an incorporated town with the criminal jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, or to declare that the mayor of such town shall be ex…
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