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22 Ark. 335

Price v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided October 15, 1860

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1860-10-15

<p>The 14th section of the act incorporating the town of Greenwood — giving the Circuit Court jurisdiction over certain, offences committed in the town — is constitutional.</p>

Decided 1860-10-15

Mr. Justice Fairchild

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2By the act incorporating the town of Greenwood, it was made an offence to give or sell ardent spirits to a minor in the town, and the fourteenth section of the act made such offence indictable and triable in the Circuit Court of Sebastian county.

¶3The appellant was indicted under the act, and was convicted upon two of -the six counts of the indictment. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he appealed. He insists that the law is unconstitutional, because jurisdiction is given to the Circuit Court of what could be conferred' only upon a corporation court, and because no act can be a misdemeanor in one township, which is not so throughout the body of the county.

¶4There is nothing in the objection, and the judgment is affirmed with costs.

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