Bugg v. Town on Houlka
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Chickasaw county. Hon. Chas. Lee Crum, Judge. Will Bugg was convicted of a violation of an ordinance of the Town of Houlka, by unlawfully and feloniously stealing meat, and he appeals. 1. The first assignment of error is the failure of the town to prove a valid ordinance. No valid ordinance was proved.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Chickasaw county. Hon. Chas. Lee Crum, Judge. Will Bugg was convicted of a violation of an ordinance of the Town of Houlka, by unlawfully and feloniously stealing meat, and he appeals. 1. The first assignment of error is the failure of the town to prove a valid ordinance. No valid ordinance was proved. The mayor was not on the board when the alleged ordinance was passed, nor did he have the minutes of the board showing the passage of the ordinance. Section 8405, Code 1906, Hemingway’s Code, section 5985, provides the way that town ordinances shall be passed,…
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Appellant was charged with the violation of an ordinance of the town of New Houlka, the affidavit before *404the mayor charging that the defendant did “unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously take, steal, and carry away a certain lot of meat, bacon, hams, and shoulder of meat,” the property of Bill Dummy, alias William Darden, of the value of twenty dollars.
On the trial of the appeal in the circuit court appellant was convicted, and now challenges the correctness of the learned circuit court’s judgment under four assignments of error: First, the alleged failure of the town to prove a valid…
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