Bonner v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The prosecution was begun by affidavit before a Justice of the Peace, as is authorized by Sections 3846 and 3847 of the Code of 1923, with warrant issued returnable before the Justice of the Peace.

The charge laid in the affidavit was petit larceny and conformed to the form as prescribed for indictments by Code of 1923, Section 3860, Subdivisions 1 and 2.

On the trial before the Justice of the Peace, the crime charged being within his jurisdiction, the defendant was convicted of the offense as charged, from which an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court under Section 3858 of the…