- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Preface
-
1 His Father’s Keeping -
2 Into Bondage Again -
3 The War Came -
4 Confederate Looting -
5 Looking for Employment -
6 In the Photography Business -
7 A Constitution for Mississippi -
8 Justice of the Peace -
9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization -
10 Electing a Legislature -
11 Financing State Reconstruction -
12 Speaker of the House Lynch -
13 1872: Election to Congress -
14 Visit to Saint Louis -
15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections -
16 Governors Alcorn and Ames -
17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi -
18 The Colored Vote: The South -
19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power -
20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection -
21 1875: Conversation with the President -
22 1875: Democratic Victory -
23 The Disputed Presidency -
24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate -
25 1880: The Battle for Reelection -
26 The Vicksburg Postmastership -
27 The Garfield Years -
28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance -
29 1882: Party and Election Disputes -
30 1884: Presidential Nominations -
31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers -
32 Marriage and Divorce -
33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages -
34 The Harrison Years -
35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement -
36 Cleveland’s Reelection -
37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch -
38 1896: The McKinley Campaign -
39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates -
40 Fighting the Hill Organization -
41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service -
42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch -
43 Keeping in Politics -
44 Controversial Convention Procedures -
45 In Cuba -
46 In Nebraska -
47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco -
48 In Hawaii and the Philippines -
49 Retirement and Remarriage -
50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question - Index
Justice of the Peace
Justice of the Peace
- Chapter:
- (p.59) 8 Justice of the Peace
- Source:
- Reminiscences of an Active Life
- Author(s):
John Roy Lynch
, John Hope Franklin- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes John Roy Lynch's experiences as a justice of the peace. A justice of the peace at that time had original jurisdiction in all civil cases where the amount in controversy did not exceed three hundred dollars. In criminal cases he had jurisdiction concurrent with the county court in all cases below the grade of felony, and in felonious and capital cases he could sit as a committing magistrate, examine the witnesses, and decide whether or not the testimony was sufficient to bind the accused over to the next grand jury, with or without bail, to fix the amount and accept or reject such bondsmen as might be offered. While his decision was not final and therefore not a bar to further action by a higher court, it had, nevertheless, an important bearing upon any subsequent action that might be taken. To have a young and inexperienced colored man placed in charge of such an important office was looked upon by many, even of his warmest personal friends, with serious misgivings. But after several months had passed these misgivings had entirely disappeared.
Keywords: John Roy Lynch, justice of the peace, jurisdiction, civil cases, criminal cases, capital cases, colored man, felonious cases
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Preface
-
1 His Father’s Keeping -
2 Into Bondage Again -
3 The War Came -
4 Confederate Looting -
5 Looking for Employment -
6 In the Photography Business -
7 A Constitution for Mississippi -
8 Justice of the Peace -
9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization -
10 Electing a Legislature -
11 Financing State Reconstruction -
12 Speaker of the House Lynch -
13 1872: Election to Congress -
14 Visit to Saint Louis -
15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections -
16 Governors Alcorn and Ames -
17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi -
18 The Colored Vote: The South -
19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power -
20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection -
21 1875: Conversation with the President -
22 1875: Democratic Victory -
23 The Disputed Presidency -
24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate -
25 1880: The Battle for Reelection -
26 The Vicksburg Postmastership -
27 The Garfield Years -
28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance -
29 1882: Party and Election Disputes -
30 1884: Presidential Nominations -
31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers -
32 Marriage and Divorce -
33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages -
34 The Harrison Years -
35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement -
36 Cleveland’s Reelection -
37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch -
38 1896: The McKinley Campaign -
39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates -
40 Fighting the Hill Organization -
41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service -
42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch -
43 Keeping in Politics -
44 Controversial Convention Procedures -
45 In Cuba -
46 In Nebraska -
47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco -
48 In Hawaii and the Philippines -
49 Retirement and Remarriage -
50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question - Index
