Farrar v. State

Appellant was convicted of a misdemeanor which was committed in Supervisors District No. 4, in Wilkinson County. There was no justice of the peace in that district and appellant was charged before and tried by a justice of the peace in District No. 1 of the County, an adjoining district, as allowed by Section 2097, Code 1930, which reads as follows: “Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the circuit court of the county over all crimes occurring in their several districts whereof the punishment prescribed does not extend beyond a fine and imprisonment in the county…