37 Minn. 15 | Minn. | 1887
The act creating the municipal court of St. Paul vests the clerk of the court “with the same authority, discretion, and power” as the judge “to act on receiving complaints and issuing the warrants of said court in criminal cases.” Gen. St. 1878, c. 64, § 98. It is urged that these powers, being judicial in their nature, cannot be constitutionally conferred upon a clerk; and, in support of this contention, we are referred to the cases in which this court has held that judicial powers could not be conferred upon the clerks of the district court. We do not think these cases are in point. The constitution itself not only defines the jurisdiction of the district court,
Both causes are remanded, with direction to the municipal court for judgment and execution in accordance with the verdict.