Smith v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The Legislature of this State, in 1897, under and by virtue of the power conferred by Article 5, Section 22, of the Constitution of this State, took from the County Court of Marion County jurisdiction in criminal cases. Acts of 1897, Chapter 36.

By Chapter 21, Acts. of the Regular Session of the Forty-sixth Legislature in 1939, the Legislature restored criminal jurisdiction to the county court of said county “only to those cases in which pleas of guilty are entered by the defendant in any cases of misdemeanor filed in said Court.”

This is an appeal from a conviction upon plea of…