Lampkin v. Pike

The defendant in error moved to dismiss the -writ of error in this case, “ upon the ground that a bill of exceptions will not lie from the city court of Jefferson to this court, because said city court of Jefferson is not a constitutional city court.” The General Assembly has in the past enacted numerous statutes relating to Jefferson. We shall, however, in the discussion which follows, confine ourselves to those only of them which bear upon the question presented by the motion to dismiss. On August 14, 1872, an act was passed “ to incorporate the town of Jefferson, in the county of Jackson,…