McNulty v. Connew

This was a proceeding by habeas corpus, on petition of the appellant against the appellee, as keeper of the city prison of the city of Lafayette.

The question presented is as to the power of a city judge to take and exercise jurisdiction of actions for violations of the city ordinances, and to commit to prison parties found guilty.

On the 2d day of February, 1874, the city council adopted *570and put in force an ordinance declaring that it was deemed expedient, as a matter of economy, that a city judge, for the city, should be elected, and providing, in the first section, that at the general…