Section 37
All civil and criminal proceedings before the municipal judge, whether sitting as a municipal judge or justice of the peace, including all proceedings for the violation of a city ordinance, are governed and regulated by the general laws of the state applicable to the justices of the peace or justices' courts in like our similar cases; but in a proceeding for the violation of a city ordinance, the trial shall be without jury, unless the defendant, on demanding a jury, shall pay into court a sufficient sum to pay the expenses of such jury.