Mississippi Supreme Court, 1926

McLain v. State

McLain v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided November 29, 1926 · No. 26034. · SMITH C.J., delivered the opinion of the court.
110 So. 441; 145 Miss. 210; 1926 Miss. LEXIS 13 (Southern Reporter)
McLain v. State

Opinion of the Court

* Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 16CJ, p. 374, n. 15. The justice of the peace before whom this case was originally tried failed to attach his certificate to the record thereof filed in the court below; consequently, that court, as the attorney-general admits, was without jurisdiction to proceed with the trial thereof.

Reversed and remanded.

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