Rice v. State
Supreme Court of Kansas
Criminal Appeal from, Leavenworth County. The facts of the case sufficient to present the points decided, appear in the opinion of the court. 1. Thg plea to the jurisdiction of the court should have been sustained. The Criminal Court of Leavenworth county has no jurisdiction of offenses arising within the corporate limits of Leavenworth city. The recorder is vested with the exclusive original jurisdiction of the same.
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Criminal Appeal from, Leavenworth County. The facts of the case sufficient to present the points decided, appear in the opinion of the court. 1. Thg plea to the jurisdiction of the court should have been sustained. The Criminal Court of Leavenworth county has no jurisdiction of offenses arising within the corporate limits of Leavenworth city. The recorder is vested with the exclusive original jurisdiction of the same. Sec. I., Art. Ill, State Constitution, grants the authority to the legislature, to vest judicial power in courts inferior to the Supreme Court, as they may provide by law. There…
1Opinion of the Court
*156 By the Court,
Crozier, C. J.
This was a prosecution in the Criminal Court of Leavenworth county, against John T. Nice, under the following section of the Crimes Act, to-wit:
“ Sec. 230. Every person who shall set up or keep any table or gambling device, commonly called A. B. C., faro-bank, E. O., roulette, equality, or any kind of gambling table or gambling device, adapted, devised and designed for the purposes of playing any game of chance, for money or property, and shall induce, entice or permit any person to bet or play at or upon any game played at or by means of such table or gambling…
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