Town of Ocean Springs v. Green

Citations

• 77 Miss. 472

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipalities. Ordinances. Titles. Code 1892, \\ 3008.</p> <p>An ordinance of a municipality entitled “An ordinance to prohibit the carrying or exhibiting of deadly weapons,” and wlich in its body makes it an offense against the municipality to carry concealed or exhibit in a rude, angry, or threatening mainer any deadly weapon, is not void under code 1892, § 3008, providing that an ordinance shall not contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.</p> <p>2. Same. Constitutional law. State crime. Ordinance prohibiting.</p> <p>The legislature can constitutionally confer on municipalities the power by ordinance to punish as an offense against the municipality an act which constitutes a crime against the stase.</p>