McNeil v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 56 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. The Louisville City Court had original exclusive jurisdiction of all indictable misdemeanors committed in the city.
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Case 56 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. The Louisville City Court had original exclusive jurisdiction of all indictable misdemeanors committed in the city. “An act regulating the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for the Ninth Judicial District,” approved Feb. 23, 1876, conferred jurisdiction upon the Jefferson Circuit Court over indictable misdemeanors committed within said city, etc., as set forth in the act, which is partly copied in the opinion of the court herein. In September, 1876, appellant was indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court for a misdemeanor committed in…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lindsay
The appellant was indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court for the offense of setting up, exhibiting, and keeping a faro bank. The indictment was returned on the 18th day of September, 1876. Upon trial he was convicted and adjudged to pay a fine of $500 and to suffer imprisonment in the county jail for and during the period of six months. His motion for a new trial, as well as his motion in arrest of judgment, was overruled. He appeals to this court, and relies for a reversal upon the single ground that the Jefferson Circuit Court had no jurisdiction of the offense with which he was charged.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Speed v. CrawfordCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1860
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