Miles v. State

— The defendant was put upon trial and convicted in the County Court, upon complaint made under oath before a justice of the peace, and upon which the warrant of arrest issued. From the judgment of conviction the defendant appealed to the Circuit Court. The statute provides, that “the trial of appeals in the Circuit or City Court shall be de novo, and without indictment, or presentment by the grand jury; but the solicitor shall make a brief statement of the cause of complaint signed by him.” — Code, § 4231.

When the case came on for trial in the Circuit Court, the defendant demurred to the…