Walker v. State

Appellant was tried and convicted in the court of a Justice of the Peace of Newton County of the crime of trespass on the land of E. F. Buckley and appealed to the circuit court of that county, where he was tried again and convicted and a fine of $100' and costs imposed. The affidavit was made before A. R. Reynolds, Justice of the Peace of the First District, and charged that the crime was committed in the Fifth Justice of the Peace District of the county. The justice of the peace for that district, H. E. Dearing, was at the time ill in a hospital in another state; for that reason the warrant…