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48 Mo. 454

State v. Saxauer

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1871

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1871-10-15

Genevieve Circuit Court. The Circuit Court of St. Genevieve county bad jurisdiction of the subject-matter of this proceeding concurrent with justices of the peace. (Wagn. Stat. 516, §§ 29-82.) The Circuit Court of St. Genevieve county had no jurisdiction of the indictment, or of the offense charged in the indictment. .The offense of selling liquor on Sunday was a misdemeanor within the exclusive jurisdiction of justices of the peace in said county. (Wagn.

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Currier, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The defendant was indicted in St. Genevieve county, November, 1870, for selling liquor and keeping an open grocery on Sunday, contrary to the statute. (Wagn. Stat. 504, § 35.) He appeared in court and voluntarily confessed the offense and was fined one dollar. An execution, regular upon its face, was issued to carry into effect the judgment. The execution was quashed on motion, and the case is brought here on writ of error.

¶3The case raises substantially the same question which was passed upon by this court in State v. Warnke, ante, p. 451. The views there expressed will be adhered to. It is unnecessary to repeat them. The further point, however, is made here that the offense charged.was exclusively cognizable before a justice of the peace, whatever the form of prosecution. We cannot sustain that view.

¶4The statute under which the indictment was found provides for the punishment of the offense there defined by fine, which shall not exceed $50. It is then provided (Wagn. Stat. 516, § 29) that the fine may be recovered before a justice of the peace. But the statute further provides (Wagn. Stat. 516, § 32) that Circuit Courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the *456peace in the cases embraced within -the provisions of section 29 above referred to. The Circuit Court' of St. Genevieve county, therefore, had jurisdiction of the offense charged in the present indictment.

¶5The order and judgment of the court below quashing the execution is reversed.

The other judges concur.
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