Black v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Geneva County Court. Heard before Hon. P. N. ITickman. The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted qf assault and battery by tbe Geneva County Court.
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Appeal from Geneva County Court. Heard before Hon. P. N. ITickman. The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted qf assault and battery by tbe Geneva County Court. Before tbe trial was entered upon be interposed a plea setting up that be bad been tried by tbe Mayor of tbe municipality of Geneva, convicted and fined, from wbicb conviction, be prayed and obtained an appeal to tbe Circuit Court of Geneva county, and that upon tbe trial of said cause in tbe circuit court, be was convicted and fined, wbicb fine be paid. That tbe offense here charged and tbe offense for wliicli be was…
1Opinion of the CourtWeakley, C. J.
By the terms of an act approved Feb. 18th, 1895, “To amend an act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the town of Geneva county, approved March 4th, 1875’” (Acts 1894-95, p. 794), the mayor of that municipality was declared to possess the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, and a-s such to have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit c urt to try all misdemeanors known to the laws of the State, committed within the corporate limits (section 3, p. 795), and by section 16 (page 807) of said act power was conferred upon the mayor to try all violations of the laws, by-laws, and ordinances of…
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