In re Kinsel

Citations

• 64 Kan. 1
• 67 P. 634
• 1902 Kan. LEXIS 153

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Trial by Jury — Police Court. The constitutional guaranties of the right of a trial by jury apply only to the classes of cases in which the right existed when the constitution was adopted; and juries were not then allowed in local police courts in prosecutions for the infraction of ordinances and local regulations passed under the police power to preserve the health, peace and good order of the people of towns and cities.</p> <p>2. -Appeal from Police Court — Insufficient Bond. The petitioner was tried in police court, without a jury, and convicted of keeping a bawdy-house, in violation of a city ordinance, and when she attempted to appeal from the conviction a bond, with approved surety, in the sum of eighty dollars, to secure her appearance in the district court, was required. She declined to give such bond, and tendered one signed by herself alone, which was refused. Held, that the constitutional guaranty of the right to a jury trial was not denied to her.</p>