State v. Barada

This was a prosecution commenced before a justice of the peace in the city of St. Louis, for a breach of the peace, which .resulted in a verdict and judgment against the defendant, from which he took an appeal to the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, where a judgment was again rendered against him, and he has brought the case here by appeal.. The defendant, both before the justice and in the Court of .Criminal Correction, filed motions to dismiss the prosecution, upon the alleged ground that the case was for a higher grade of misdemeanor than was triable before a justice of the peace.…