Hart v. People

Citations

• 89 Ill. 407

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction— whether city, under its charter, has exclusive jurisdiction over offenses. Any exclusive jurisdiction, given to any city by its charter, before the adoption of the constitution of 1870, over certain offenses within its limits, has been taken away and abrogated by section 29, article 6 of that constitution, which requires that all laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation, and the jurisdiction, powers, etc., of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, shall be uniform. Whenever jurisdiction of such offenses is conferred by statute upon circuit courts, it operates to take away the exclusive jurisdiction before conferred upon municipal corporations.</p>