60 Wash. 238 | Wash. | 1910
On July 10, 1909, a criminal prosecution was instituted before E. F. Wicker, police justice of Kalama, a city of the fourth class, charging J. S. Hall with the violation of a city ordinance. Upon arraignment the defendant
Objections of the appellant to the form of the application for the writ are so technical and devoid of merit that we will not discuss them in tMs opinion. Was the respondent entitled to an order granting a change of venue? This identical question was answered in the affirmative in Puyallup v. Snider, 13 Wash. 572, 43 Pac. 635. The decision in that case was predicated in part upon Hill’s Code, § 25 (Bal. Code, § 4683), which conferred upon justices of the peace jurisdiction in all criminal causes arising under any city or town ordinance. The section was amended in 1901, but the affirmative delegation of the jurisdiction mentioned was continued therein. It was further amended, Laws of 1909, page 377, ch. 98 (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 46), and now reads as follows :
“Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the superior courts of all misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors committed in or which may be tried in their respective counties: Provided, That justices of the peace in cities of the first class shall in no event impose greater punishment than a fine of five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for six months; and justices of the peace other than those elected in cities of the first class shall in no event impose greater punishment than a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days.”
Appellant insists that the omission of the words contained in the former section now deprives justices of the peace of
The judgment is affirmed.
Rudkin, C. J., Parked, Dunbar, and Mount, JJ., concur.