If on the day of court and at the place designated, it appears that the defendant has been duly served with the warrant, the justice court judge shall proceed, without further pleadings in writing, to the trial of the complaint.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 56, art. 7(10); 1857, ch. 42, art. 11; 1871, § 1589; 1880, § 2652; 1892, § 4469; 1906, § 5048; Hemingway's 1917, § 3320; 1930, § 3465; 1942, § 1042; Laws, 1982, ch. 423, § 21.
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