Monroe v. State

Citations

• 103 Miss. 759
• 60 So. 773

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Appeal and error. Review. Jurisdictional errors. Code 1906, section 4936.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 4936, providing that a judgment in a criminal case shall not he reversed because of any errors in the case in the court below except where the errors or omissions are jurisdictional, in their character, unless the record shows that the errors complained of were made ground of special exception in that court, the failure of the state in a misdemeanor case to prove that the crime was committed within the district of the justice of the peace in whose court the case originated, may be reviewed on appeal to the supreme court, although not raised below, since the venue in a criminal case is jurisdictional.</p>