JURY--Right to Jury Trial--Violation of Ordinance. Section 1, c. 147, Sess. Laws 1915, defines "municipal courts" to mean and include all the courts of the State of Oklahoma, organized and existing in the various towns and cities thereof which shall have and possess, under the laws of the state, original jurisdiction to hear and determine offenses against the ordinances of municipalities," and defines an "offense" "to mean the doing of some act, or the failure to perform some duty, commanded by some municipal ordinance or by law, and for the violation of which a penalty or punishment is provided thereby," and declares such proceedings to be "criminal in their nature; and except as otherwise specifically provided thereby," and declares such proceedings to be "criminal in their nature; and except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be governed by, and subject to, general laws relating to criminal procedure." Held that, in respect to "offenses" under city ordinances, the punishment for which is or may be imprisonment, conviction of the accused without a jury trial would be in contravention of section 7 of the Bill of Rights, providing that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," because under the constitutional provisions a jury is an essential part of every tribunal for the trial of criminal cases, and such constitutional provisions place the right to trial by jury beyond the power of the Legislature to abrogate or abridge it, and it is beyond the power of the Legislature to confer jurisdiction on any tribunal to try criminal cases without providing for jury trials.