State v. Woodling
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by 'defendant, M. E. Woodling, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of Minneapolis, Stephen Mahoney, J., entered November 3, 1892, convicting him of assault and battery upon Fred E. Harlow. See State v. Bannock, post, p. 419. Wherever the right of trial by jury could be had under the Territorial law, it may now be had, and the legislature cannot abridge it.
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Appeal by 'defendant, M. E. Woodling, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of Minneapolis, Stephen Mahoney, J., entered November 3, 1892, convicting him of assault and battery upon Fred E. Harlow. See State v. Bannock, post, p. 419. Wherever the right of trial by jury could be had under the Territorial law, it may now be had, and the legislature cannot abridge it. Wallon v. Bancroft, 4 Minn. 109, (Gil. 70;) Commissioners v. Morrison, 22 Minn. 178. Where rights are acquired by the citizen under the existing laws, there is no power in the Legislature to take them away. Wynehamer…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The defendant, having been arraigned before the municipal court of Minneapolis upon a complaint for assault and battery, pleaded not guilty, and expressly waived a jury, and thereupon the court, having tried the case, found the ■ defendant guilty, and ordered that he pay a fine of $25.
The defendant on appeal raises two points: First, that the judgment was not justified by the evidence; and, second, that the court had no jurisdiction to render judgment without the verdict of a jury.
*1441. All we deem necessary to say upon the first point is that, even upon defendant’s own testimony, he was guilty…
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