Vetock v. Hufford

Miller, President :

Mandamus is sought commanding defendant, a justice of the peace, to grant petitioner an appeal, from his sentence and judgment against him, to the criminal court of McDowell County, and to forthwith transmit to the clerk’s office of that court all the papers necessary to the perfecting of such appeal.

The record shows that petitioner; on a warrant charging him with having carried about his person a deadly weapon, to-wit, a pistol, was found guilty by the justice and sentenced to work on the public road for a period of twelve months, and to pay a fine of two hundred dollars…