McNish v. State

The plaintiffs in error Avere jointly indicted, tried and convicted of breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent to commit a felony.

The State Avas permitted 0A*er the objections of the plaintiffs in error, hereafter called the defendants, to introduce in evidence the proceedings on the defendants’ preliminary examination before a justice of the peace, acting as committing magistrate, wherein they had pleaded guilty, one for burglary ■ and tAvo as accessories thereto. It had been shown that the constable who Avas still in charge of these defendants had recently before promised one of…