Mississippi Supreme Court April 15, 1882 (Hughston v. Cornish)

Campbell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

“Every justice of the peace shall keep a well-bound book, styled ‘ a docket,’ in which he shall enter ” all the proceedings before him in every case. Code 1880, § 2193. That is the record of a case required to be made by the justice of the peace; his “ minutes ” to serve as a memorial of his proceedings in cases civil and criminal.