Hill v. State

1. The defendant was tried and fined in a justice’s court upon a complaint for trespass conceded to be fatally defective. A writ of review was sued out of the circuit court, which, upon motion, was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The error alleged in this ruling is the ground of the appeal. The ruling was based on the assumption that there is no right to the writ to review the judgment of a justice’s court in a criminal action when the fine is less than twenty dollars, for the reason that the right to the writ is concurrent with the right of appeal. A correct determination of the question…