Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Section 3.001, Ann. Code 18921, expressly authorizes cities having four thousand or more inhabitants to select a police justice, who shall have the power of a justice of the peace within the corporate limits, and also authority to try all infractions of city ordinances. It is not questioned that Duke was duly selected and qualified as police justice of Water Valley in conformity with the statute creating such.office, and we cannot doubt the power of the legislature to' create the office, and to clothe it with the jurisdiction prescribed by section 3001. How the election of two justices of the peace, in the district including Water Valley, and their readiness to act in the execution of their offices at the time of the trial of Hughes by Duke, affects the authority of Dfike, we cannot see. The justices themselves, and no one for them, have any more right to complain of the authority conferred upon a police justice than a police justice has to complain of the authority conferred upon justices of the peace. The offices are not made for the incumbents, but for the public welfare, and each office stands upon a constitutional basis. The inferior courts established under section 172 of the Constitution are, in their jurisdiction, independent of the courts erected under section 171, and the number of these courts and their respective jurisdiction are within legislative authority, and their creation can be complained of only to. the legislature itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gober v. Phillips