Jeffries v. State

The appellant, J..T. Jeffries, was tried before J. W. Roundtree, a justice of the peace in and for Supervisors’ district No. 4 of Tallahatchie county, Miss., on a charge of possessing more than one quart of intoxicating liquors, and was there convicted. From that conviction he appealed to the circuit court, where he was again convicted of having a less quantity than one quart of whisky, and was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and serve a term of thirty days in the county jail.

The point is again made here that a transcript of the record of appeal from the justice of the peace…