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CITY OF KNOXVILLE EX REL. ROACH v. DOSSETT

672 S.W.2d 193 (1984)

CITY OF KNOXVILLE, State of Tennessee ex rel. Jon G. ROACH, City Attorney for City of Knoxville, and Allen M. Elliott, Municipal Judge, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William E. DOSSETT, District Attorney General, Lillian Bean, Circuit Court Clerk of Knox County, and Helen M. Randles, Clerk of the Criminal and Fourth Circuit Court of Knox County, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

June 4, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon G. Roach, City Atty., Knoxville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dale C. Workman, Knox County Law Director, W. Edward Dossett, Dist. Atty. Gen., Knoxville, for defendants-appellees.

OPINION

HARBISON, Judge.

This case involves the question of whether municipal courts of the City of Knoxville have jurisdiction over state criminal offenses committed within the municipal boundaries. The Chancellor held that no such jurisdiction exists under present statutes. We affirm.

Such jurisdiction was originally conferred upon the municipal or corporation courts of the City in its charter, first enacted as Tennessee Private Acts 1923, Chapter...

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