City of Water Valley v. Davis

Mississippi Supreme Court
City of Water Valley v. Davis, 73 Miss. 521 (Miss. 1895)
Cooper

City of Water Valley v. Davis

Opinion of the Court

Cooper, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by tbe city of Water Valley from a judgment of the circuit court discharging the appellee, who was arrested upon a charge of violating an ordinance of the city against retailing. We find ourselves without any jurisdiction in the matter, for the reason that no appeal is, by law, provided in favor of a municipality in this class of cases. The defendant in all criminal prosecutions in the circuit court is given an appeal to this court (Code 1892, § 36), and the state is also given the right of appeal, in certain states of case, in which the defendant in a criminal prosecution has been acquitted or discharged, and in all cases where the defendant appeals. Code 1892, § 39. But this is not a prosecution by the state, and there is no statute giving the right of appeal to a municipality in criminal prosecutions.

The appeal must therefore Toe dismissed.

Reference

Full Case Name
City of Water Valley v. Dick Davis
Cited By
5 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Appeals. Municipality. Violation of ordinance. Supreme court. Code 1893, 36, 39, cotlstrued. The supreme court has uo jurisdiction of an appeal prosecuted by a municipality from a judgment of the circuit court discharging- one arrested for violating an ordinance of the municipality. The prosecution is not one by the state, nor the case one in which the defendant appeals ($$ 36, 39, Code 1893), and no statute confers the right of appeal.