State v. Rice

The issue presented by this appeal is whether §4-2402, Burns’ 1946 Replacement [Acts 1905, eh. 129, §216, p. 219; 1921, ch. 70, §1, p. 153; 1939, ch. 7, §1, p. 12] deprives a Justice of the Peace of Center Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, of jurisdiction of a violation of a highway traffic misdemeanor committed outside of the corporate limits of South Bend. The trial court held that it did, and the state appeals.

South Bend is a city of the second class, and no magistrate courts have been created for St. Joseph County. The material part of the statute concerning the jurisdiction of city…