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13 Mont. 398

State v. Deslauries

Montana Supreme Court

Decided October 9, 1893

Montana Supreme Court · decided 1893-10-09

Prosecution for costs. The cause was tried before Durfee, J., who granted defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment.' Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. This is an appeal by the state from the order of the district court arresting judgment rendered for costs against a complaining witness in a prosecution for a misdemeanor. (Crim. Pr. Act, § 394.) The case originally was State v. Slaughter, for petit larceny, commenced and tried in the justice’s court.

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Eeversed · Decided 1893-10-09

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De Witt, J.

¶1It is our opinion that the district court erred in granting the motion in arrest of judgment. The same point is here presented as was decided in State v. Evans, ante, page 239, and Electric Light Co. v. Morgan, ante, page 394.

¶2Respondent here was appellant in the district court. He appealed from the justice’s court to the district court. On such appeal the trial in the district court is de novo, whether the case is civil (cases supra) or criminal. (Crim. Pr. Act, § 516.) It may be said in this case as in Electric Light Co. v. Morgan. “ There is no provision for the district court, upon such an appeal, to review certain rulings or actions of the justice of the peace in the course of his adjudication and decision of the case, aud on the correctness or incorrectness thereof determine the case in the district court.”

¶3The judgment of the district court is reversed, and the case remanded, with directions to the district court to enter a judgment on the verdict in the district court for costs against the complaining witness.

¶4Reversed.

Harwood, J., concurs.Pemberton, C. J., did not participate in the hearing or determination of this case.
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