Show LA lAW REVISION RAISES POINT Court Must Decide as to Whether Legislators Acted on Right Section When the last legs legislature passed a bill intended to limit the trial jurisdiction of Justices of t the e peace to offenses within their th respective precincts it slipped a cog and amended the section which applies applies applies ap ap- ap- ap plies to jurisdiction of oC su subject mat mat- mat matter ter instead of oC territory according to a legal point raised by the state in the case of the state against Charles Parker recently convicted of manufacture and possession of oC liquor in Judge Silas Browns Brown's court of the sixth Justice precinct After conviction of Parker counsel counsel coun coun- sd sel for him raised a point that Judge Judg Brown was without jurisdiction tion t to try the case as the alleged offense had been committed in Justice justice justice Jus jus- tice pre precinct No 5 to which Joseph Hill had been elected justice but never qualified Counsel Counse cited the amendment of oC the last legislature as limiting the territorial Jurisdiction jurisdiction Juris juris- diction of oC justices to crimes committed committed com corn within their precincts The state has countered with the contention that the last legislature amended amender the wrong wrong- section of oC the statute and ci l failed to make any hange change in the t territorial jurisdiction tion section which remains the same and gives justices jurisdiction tion over crimes committed anywhere anywhere any any- where when within their county The issue is now pending in th the district court I |