Commonwealth v. Hazen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 283, Jan. T., 1902, by-defendant, from judgment of Superior Ct., Jan. T., 1902, No. 29, reversing order of Q. S. Pike Co., Oct. T., 1900, No. 6, quashing summary conviction in case of Commonwealth v. Charles Hazen. Appeal from the Superior Court. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court and 20 Pa. Superior Ct. 487. Error assigned was the judgment of the Superior Court reversing the judgment of the court of quarter sessions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
The appellant, Charles Hazen, was summarily convicted before Calvin O. Billings, a justice of the peace of Pike county, for the violation of the special act of assembly of March 23, 1871, in killing a deer belonging to the Blooming Grove Park Association and protected by the penal clauses of that act. The justice of the peace imposed a fine of $50.00 and costs and in default of payment he was sentenced to the county jail. Hazen appealed to the court of quarter sessions, which court, *54in opinion filed, held the act referred to to be unconstitutional, in that: 1. The…
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