Case ID: miss_145/html/0210-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith! O. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McLain et al. v. State.
    
    (Division A.
    Nov. 29, 1926.)
    [110 So. 441.
    No. 26034.]
    Criminal Daw. Jurisdiction did not attach whe^e justice of the peace • failed to attach certificate of record.
    
    Trial court held without jurisdiction of case to which justice of the peace whom it was originally tried failed to attach certificate . of record.
    Appeal from circuit court of Greene county.
    Hon. Ei. M. Bordeaux, Judge.
    L. A. McLain and another appeal.
    Reversed and remanded.
    
      
      Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 16CJ, p. 374, n. 15.
    
   Smith! O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

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.