Abbott v. State

Appellant seeks by certiorari to quash, the judgment of a justice of the peace imposing’ a fine on him, and also to obtain his release under a writ of habeas corpus from the custody of the officer who was seeking to enforce that judgment.

The judgment in question was rendered by M. Roundtree, a justice of the peace for Caddo Township, Clark County, and contains the recitals that on September 26, 1927, H. S. Nelson, a justice of the peace for Missouri Township, Clark County, filed with Roundtree a transcript of the proceeding previously pending before Nelson of the case of the State of Arkansas…