City of Oxford v. Buford

The appellee, Eddie Buford, was tried and convicted in the mayor’s court of the city of Oxford for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors in violation of an” ordinance of the city. Prom this conviction Buford appealed to the circuit court, and was acquitted there. The learned circuit judge ruled that the two ordinances. of the city of Oxford offered in evidence by the city were void. Prom this ruling of the court the city prosecutes this appeal, in accordance with section 16, Hemingway’s Code, (section 40, Code of 1906, paragraph 2 thereof), which provides for an appeal by the state or any…