Richards v. Town of Magnolia
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Miller, Judge. Jake Rickards was convicted of unlawful retailing under an ordinance of tke town of Magnolia and appeals. Tke facts are fully stated in tke opinion of tke court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Miller, Judge. Jake Rickards was convicted of unlawful retailing under an ordinance of tke town of Magnolia and appeals. Tke facts are fully stated in tke opinion of tke court. It is now tke contention of tke defendant tkat tke ordinance sliould not kave been introduced for tke conclusive reason tkat on its face it is absolutely void, and tkat an ordinance in precisely tke identical language kas been condemned and declared null and void by tke Mississippi supreme court in tke case of Town of Oakland v. Miller. 43 So. 467. Tke only…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, C. J.
The appellant was charged with unlawful retailing in the town of Magnolia, and was tried and convicted of same in the municipal court. Prom this conviction he appealed to the circuit court, and was again tried and convicted, and from this conviction prosecutes an appeal to this court.
So far as the testimony is concerned, it may he stated that the verdict of the jury is in accordance with the proof, and the action of the court in refusing to exclude the evidence and direct a verdict for the defendant was as it should have been. The only question in this case which requires discussion is that…
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- Town of Oakland v. MillerMississippi Supreme Court · 1907
- Winfield v. City of JacksonMississippi Supreme Court · 1906
- Chrisman v. City of JacksonMississippi Supreme Court · 1904
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