State v. Bartlett
Wisconsin Supreme Court
CERTIORARI to the Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit. The charter of the city of Hudson provides for the election therein of a police justice who shall hold his office for two years.
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CERTIORARI to the Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit. The charter of the city of Hudson provides for the election therein of a police justice who shall hold his office for two years. His jurisdiction, in the particulars involved in this case, is as follows: “ The police justice shall possess all the authority, powers and rights of a justice of the peace of the countyof St. Croix under the laws of the state, and shall have in addition thereto, sole, exclusive jurisdiction to hear all complaints, and conduct all examinations and trials, in criminal cases arising within the city, cognizable…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
It is stated in the affidavit or petition on which the writ of certiorari was allowed, that the learned circuit judge *292discharged the defendant in error from the custody of the sheriff on the ground that the -warrant of the mayor conferred no authority or jurisdiction upon Patten to perform the duties of police justice.
A similar question arose in Owens v. The State, 27 Wis., 456. The charter of the city of Mineral Point vests in a municipal court “exclusive jurisdiction of all criminal causes and matters of which a justice of the peace has jurisdiction, when the cause shall originate within…
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