Jones v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction in the circuit court in a case appealed thereto from the court of a justice of the peace. We are requested by the appellee, by proper motion, to dismiss the appeal; the ground of the request being that the record transmitted by the justice of the peace to the circuit court, and on which the case was there tried, is so imperfect as to confer no jurisdiction on the circuit court.

There are two lines of decisions as to what disposition an appellate court should make of a case appealed thereto from an inferior court which was without jurisdiction to try and…