Winfield v. City of Jackson

Citations

• 89 Miss. 272
• 42 So. 183

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipalities. Ordinances. Single subject. Code 1892, § 3008.</p> <p>A municipal ordinance making all acts constituting a misdemeanor under the laws of the State offenses against the municipality is not violative of Code 1892, § 3008, providing that an ordinance shall not contain more than, one subject.</p> <p>2. Cbiminal Law and Procedure. Judicial knotoledge. Time. Remarks of cou/nsel.</p> <p>It is not improper for a prosecuting attorney to state to a jury in ■argument that a certain day was Sunday, the statement being true; since the court takes judicial notice of time in the calendar.</p> <p>3. Same. Lost affidavit. Substitution of lost record.</p> <p>It is competent for the circuit court on an appeal from a conviction , in a municipal court to hear evidence touching the original existence of a missing affidavit on which the prosecution was begun, and of its contents, and to have it substituted.</p>