State v. Lowber

The Chancellor.

An indictment was found against John Lowber, one of the Justices of the Peace for Kent County, at the November Sessions, 1819, for altering a counterfeit bank note. It was tried at May Sessions, 1820, and Lowber was convicted by the jury, and the court passed judgment against him. On an application made to this Court on the 8th instant for the allowance of a writ of error to be directed to the Court of Quarter *558Sessions of the Peace, or for the order of this Court to be made on the Attorney General for his fiat for a writ óf error, a preliminary question has arisen, which is,…