Montross v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Harrison County. Hon. Samuel H. Terral, Judge, The facts are stated in the opinion. The first question presented to the court is, has the Mayor’s Court of the Town of Biloxi, under the constitution and laws of the State of Mississippi jurisdiction over the offense charged in the indictment here preferred against this appellant to solve this question in the affirmative.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Harrison County. Hon. Samuel H. Terral, Judge, The facts are stated in the opinion. The first question presented to the court is, has the Mayor’s Court of the Town of Biloxi, under the constitution and laws of the State of Mississippi jurisdiction over the offense charged in the indictment here preferred against this appellant to solve this question in the affirmative. The court is referred to Article I, Sec. 31, of the bill of rights ? This section empowers the legislature in cases of petit larceny and other misdemeanors of like character to dispense with an…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
By the seventh section of the act approved October 23, 1866, incorporating the town of Shieldsborough, the mayor, two aldermen, the clerk, and the marshal of said town were declared to constitute an inferior court of record, to be designated by the name and style of “ Mayor’s Court of the City of Shieldsborough,” and jurisdiction was conferred upon said court in this language: “ The said court thus constituted shall have full, complete, and exclusive jurisdiction of all the police matters prescribed by the ordinances and by-laws of said city, of all breaches of the peace, assaults, assaults…
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