State v. Lanser

The court of common pleas reversed the judgment of the mayor’s court and held in its journal entry that the mayor “had no jurisdiction of the plaintiff in error, for the reason that the warrant upon which the plaintiff in error was arrested was issued without an affidavit which was sworn to before any officer duly authorized to administer oaths, having been filed.” The Court of Appeals affirmed this judgment.

In support of this judgment the defendant in error claims:

First. That-there is no such officer as a “vice mayor”; that the statutes provide only for an acting mayor, and that hence the…