Hudson v. State

The first assignment for error is that the justice of the peace did not have jurisdiction and therefore was without authority to try the cause below, in view of the principle announced in the case of Tumey v. State of Ohio, and also Williams v. State of Ohio. However, the jurisdictional question was not raised in the trial court and can not now avail.

Next, it is insisted that the trial court was guilty of prejudicial error in that it proceeded to hear the evidence in the case in the absence of the defendant and his counsel. The record discloses that the accused and his counsel stepped out on…