Cawthon v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Cawthon v. State, 100 Miss. 834 (Miss. 1911)
57 So. 224
Smith
Cawthon v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
As this record contains no certified copy of the proceedings before the justice of the peace, in whose court this cause is supposed to have originated, the court below was without jurisdiction, and consequently the judgment must be and is reversed, and the cause remanded. Rogers v. City of Hattiesburg, 55 So. 481.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Criminai, Law. Appeal to circuit court. Record. Supreme court. Where on an appeal from a justice of the peace court to the circuit court no certified copy of the proceedings before the justice of the peace court is filed in the circuit court, the latter court is without jurisdiction to try the case and in such case on appeal the supreme court will reverse and remand the case.