Meirs v. Bussom

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The first reason assigned by the prosecutor •of this writ of certiorari for the reversal of the judgment given against him in the court for the trial of small causes is that the “justice refused the defendant a trial by jury, although demanded before the merits of the cause had been inquired into by anyone being sworn in the cause.”

The return of the justice, in so far as it relates to the •demand for a jury, is in these words-: “He [defendant] asked for an adjournment for two weeks, but I saw nothing that he said sufficient in what he said…