State v. Burkett

Citations

• 83 Miss. 301

Syllabus

<p>1. Ceimihal Law. Road Contractor. Laws 1900, p. 153, ch. 119. FaiVwre to work roads. Indictment.</p> <p>An indictment against a road contractor, under Laws 1900, p. 153, ch. 119, empowering the board of supervisors in ita discretion to have the highways worked by contract, is demurrable if it fail to charge that the law for working- the roads by contract had-been put in operation in the county.</p> <p>2. Same. Judicial notice. Orders of hoard of supervisors.</p> <p>The courts do not take judicial notice of the orders' of boards of supervisors placing said' law in force in their respective counties.</p>