Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_12/html/0329-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hale, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EVIDENCE.
    [Cuyahoga Circuit Court,
    January Term, 1901.]
    Caldwell, Hale and Marvin, JJ.
    Peter Nelson v. Berea (Vil.).
    Court Will not Take Judicial Notice oe Ordinance, When.
    Where it is sought to have the validity of an ordinance or the sufficiency of the affidavit under the ordinance determined, the ordinance should be brought into the record; for this purpose a reviewing court will not take judicial notice of the ordinance.
    Heard on Error.
   Hale, J.

The substantial error, of which complaint is made in this case, is, that the affidavit upon which the piosecution was based, does not state any offense under the ordinance under which the prosecution was had.

We have no knowledge of the terms of this ordinance, except that which we learn from the brief of counsel lor plaintiff in error, to which a copy is attached; it is not made a part of the record. In the absence oi the ordinance from the record this cóurt cannot determine this question. It it is sought to have the validity of the ordinance, or the sufficiency of the affidavit under the ordinance, determined, the ordinance should, in some way, be brought into the record.

For this purpose a reviewing court will not take judicial notice of the ordinance.

The judgment of the court of common pleas, affirming the judgment oi the mayor’s court, is affirmed.