Ex parte Tucker

This was an application, by James Tucker, for a writ of prohibition, to the circuit court of Pulaski county, preventing it from executing a.judgment rendered against him upon an indictment for gaming.

The suggestion on which the application was founded, sets forth, in substance: That, whereas, by the Constitution and laws of the State, justices of the peace have exclusive jurisdiction of all criminal cases, less than felony; yet, notwithstanding, at the November term, 1868, of the circuit court of Pulaski county, the grand jury of said county found and returned into court an indictment against…