Mullis v. State

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Ground two of the motion for new trial (ground one having been expressly abandoned) alleges error in permitting the State to introduce in evidence the following ordinance of the Town of Cad-well: “Moved and carried that the police have the authority to make cases against any white person caught in the negro quarters after sundown.” The objection interposed to the admission thereof was: (1) “Because it is no ordinance of the Town of Cad-well.” (2) -“Because an ordinance can be proved in only two ways, first, by official certified copy…