Brown v. State

The essence of the Court's holding is that an offender who is given a traffic ticket and who is notified by the ticket to appear in district court and to answer the charge, and who does appear, not only in district court, but in circuit court, where a jury finds him guilty, can, after his conviction, challenge the conviction on the ground that he did not have notice of the accusation and a copy of it sufficient to give either the district or circuit court jurisdiction over him to render a judgment because the name of the district clerk which appeared on the face was affixed by a person using…