Appeal of Hartranft
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari sur appeal to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1878, No. 14. This was the appeal of John E. Hartranft, Governor of the Commonwealth; M. S. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth; James W. Latta, Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth; General R. M. Brinton, and Major A. Wilson Norris, from the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Allegheny county, allowing and directing attachments to issue against them…
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Certiorari sur appeal to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1878, No. 14. This was the appeal of John E. Hartranft, Governor of the Commonwealth; M. S. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth; James W. Latta, Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth; General R. M. Brinton, and Major A. Wilson Norris, from the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Allegheny county, allowing and directing attachments to issue against them in the matter of the investigation of the grand jury into the riots at Pittsburgh, of July 21st and 22d 1877. The riots…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
Grand juries have the power to make presentment, not only of such criminal offences as may be laid before them by the district-attorney, in the form of bills of indictment, and of such as may come within the personal knowledge of individual members thereof, but, also, of all such matters as may be given them in charge by the court. Neither is there any doubt about the power of the court to direct that body to make inquiry concerning affairs which directly affect the public peace and society; among which affairs may bo instanced groat riots, such as those which recently disturbed the…
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