Adams v. Stanford

The county attorney of Maricopa county filed an information in the superior court of said county, charging the petitioner with the commission of a misdemeanor, viz., with the offense of keeping a disorderly house contrary to paragraph 317 of the Penal Code of Arizona of 1913. The defendant demurred to the jurisdiction of the court, alleging that, in and by virtue of paragraphs 19 and 1308 of the Penal Code of Arizona of 1913 justices’ courts have jurisdiction over the offenses charged in said information, and that the superior court of Maricopa county has no jurisdietion whatever of said…