Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

and SUFFICIENT V1aductS or pflQSeS at
least twenty-five feet high In the clear
above said track or tracks, and suffer
or permit no grade crossings there
over.
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
Approved May 7, 1918. Copy Law.
No. $50, AL Published May s, 1913.
CHAPTER 1874, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT-To amend sections and
Of chapter 1873; lays of 1905, and sec
of chapter 396, laws of 1903, relating
to the municipal court of Brown
county and of the city of Green Bay.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section of chapter 396
of the laws Of 1903 is amended to read:
(Chapter 800, laws of 1909 Section 8.
No person shall be eligible to the Of
fee Of, judge of the municipal court
unless he be a practicing attorney, duly
admitted to the bar of Brown county,
and said judge shall hold no other
county office during the term for which
he is elected or appointed. Said Judge
may, by order in writing to be filed
In said court, appoint the county judge
thereof to discharge the duties of such
judge during his absence, sickness, or
other temporary disability. The APP
pointee shall have all the powers of
SuCn JuQS0 Wflll0 aOInlHlSLeTIuS SuCH
office. The order appointing any
such county judge may be revoked by
said municipal judge at any time.
Said municipal judge shall have the
Brown county to attend, hold court,
and try any action in said municipal
court, and while so doing, said circuit
Judge shall have the. same powers as
court.
Section g. Section 1 Of chapter 1853
of the laws Of 1905 is amended to read:
SChapter 15$, laws of 1900 Section J.;
Of 1903 Is hereby amended SO as to
read as follows: Section 5. The
municipal court shall be a court OF
record, with clerk and seal, and shall
have concurrent jurisdiction with the
circuit court of Brown county, with
full power and authority to hear, try
and determine all cases of crimes and
misdemeanors Of whatever kind, ex-
cept murder, that are or may be cog
nizable before the circuit court, which
may be committed in the county of
Brown, provided that in all cases In
which the person charged with crime
shall plead guilty to the charge, the
said municipal court shall have full
power and authority to sentence such
person, SO pleading guilty, to hard
labor in the state prison, in case the
offense is liable to such punishment,
or to inf1ict any other punishment or
penalty under the laws or the state
in as full a manner as the circuit court
could do in such cases and the SAID
municipal court shall have power to
commit or to bail over to SUCH time as
may be convenient such persons as
may be found on examination before II
to be indictable or subject to a crimi-
nal information in which such persons
are charged with an offense punishable
| by Imprisonment in the state PRISON.
| trial of such persons so committed or
bailed over the district attorney shall
file in said municipal court, the proper
| information against such person, and
the court shall then proceed to hear
! try and determine the same, unless the
said cause is continued by the court
! for cause. And in any criminal cause,
not cognizable, before justice OF the
peace. and in which an information
may be filed as aforesaid, after the
same is at issue, the judge may NIX
| day for the trial of the same, ana
the same may then be tried oy the
court, in case a trial thereof by jury
is waived by the accused. In writing,
or in open court, to be entered upon
| jury is so waived, the cause shall be
| tried by the court. No justice or the
peace, police justice, or court commits
sioner within said city OF Green Bay,
inal or bastardy cases, but all SUCH
| jurisdiction is vested In the judge OF
said court; and all examinations, re
cognizances and commitments from
|
police justices of said county, in Grim
! mai cases Except murder), and in
| bastardy cases shall be certified and
returned to said municipal court IN.
! stead Of said circuit court, at least
| five days before the time fixed for the
appearance of the accused; and the ac-
| cused shall, and all witnesses required
to attend may be committed to De
brought or recognized to appear before
said municipal court, on a day certain,
not more than twenty days from the
date of said commitment or recogn1-
zance. Said court shall have 1urlsd1c-
ton to try and determine all appeals
in civil and criminal cases from JUS
tees Of the peace and ponce justices
in said county. and In all cases remov-
ed from said justices or police courts
on account of the title to lands COM
ing in question, and all such cases
shall be certified and returned to. said
| municipal court instead Of the circuit
court of said county, within ten days
after the perfection of the appeal, in
appealed cases, or the joining Of issue.
! in other cases; provided that IN civil
/ cases appealable from justices judg-
ments the party appealing may, at his
option, appeal to the circuit court for
Brown county instead Of to said NUM-
| cipaI court. transcripts of all judg-
ments rendered in said court may i'm
u mediately after the entry of such Judg-
ments, be filed by the clerk of said
court, in the office Of the clerk Of the
circuit court Of Brown county, and
shall be tiocketed by said clerk Of the
circuit court, who shall receive the
same fees therefor as provided by law
in other cases and such transcrlpts OF
/ JUDGEMENTS so filed and docketed, shall
have the same force and effect as con-
shutting a lien upon real estate that
judgments rendered and docketed in
said circuit court have by law, and be
carried into execution, both as to the
principal judgment debtor and his
surety if any, in the same manner and
with like effect as the judgment of
said circuit court. A jury in said
municipal court in criminal cases of
which a justice court would not have
Jurisdiction and in which an informa-.
ton may be filed, shall consist of
twelve jurors, qualified to sit as
jurors under the laws Of this state,
provided that same may be tried by a
ever the accused, in writing, or by
consent in open court, entered in the