Ex parte Murray
Decision Date | 13 May 1916 |
Docket Number | 2229. |
Citation | 157 P. 647,39 Nev. 351 |
Parties | EX PARTE MURRAY. |
Court | Nevada Supreme Court |
In the matter of the application of John Murray for a writ of habeas corpus. Proceeding dismissed.
William Forman, of Tonopah, for petitioner.
J. A Sanders, of Tonopah, for respondent.
This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus. A complaint was filed against the petitioner in the justice court of Tonopah township, in words and figures as follows:
"Personally appeared before me, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1916, John Artoocovich, of Tonopah, in the county of Nye, state of Nevada, who, upon information and belief, complains and says that John Murray, of Tonopah, on or about the 10th day of November, A. D. 1915, and before the filing of this complaint, in the town of Tonopah, in said county of Nye state of Nevada, did then and there unlawfully take and receive of and from John Artoocovich $10 lawful money of the United States, while employed as a laborer at the Tonopah Extension Mining Company, a corporation, as the price and condition of the continuance in employment of said Artoocovich at said mine as laborer therein, he, the said John Murray, being then and there foreman of said mining company charged and intrusted with the continuance of the said John Artoocovich in the employment of said mining company, all of which is contrary to the form force, and effect of the statute in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the people of the state of Nevada. Said complainant therefore prays that a warrant may be issued for the arrest of the said John Murray, and that he may be dealt with according to law.
John Artoocovich.
Petitioner was arrested and put on trial in the justice court upon said complaint, before a jury, and upon conviction was fined in the sum of $300, and sentenced to serve six months in jail. From this judgment he appealed to the district court, where he was tried before a jury and found guilty; and a motion for a new trial, as well as a motion in arrest of judgment, having been denied, judgment was passed by the court, adjudging that petitioner pay a fine of $300 and serve six months in the county jail.
It is contended by petitioner that neither the justice court nor the district court acquired jurisdiction to hear and determine the charges against him, for the reason that the complaint is not in compliance with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or section 18, art. 1, of the Constitution of the state of Nevada, or with section 7472 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, in that it is made upon information and belief, instead of upon the positive knowledge of complainant. Counsel for petitioner relies with great confidence upon the case of Salter v. State, 2 Okl. Cr. 464, 102 P. 719, 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 60, 139 Am. St. Rep. 935, to sustain his contention. While it is true that that case does sustain the contention of counsel, the decision was reversed in Ex parte Talley, 4 Okl. Cr. 398, 112 P. 36, 31 L. R. A. (N. S.) 805, where the authorities were reviewed at length. The court said:
In Dowdell v. United States, 221 U.S. 325, 31 S.Ct. 590, 55 L.Ed. 753, it is said:
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The objection that the justice of the peace did not acquire jurisdiction for the reasons stated was made for the first time after the case had been appealed to the district court but it nowhere affirmatively appears that that objection was made prior to arraignment upon the complaint and pleading...
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