Commonwealth v. Miller

The only question we are called on to decide in this. case, is whether a fine for a breach of the peace, assessed upon a warrant issued under the authority of the statute of 1802, (2 Stat. Law, 1390,) for suppressing “riots, routs, unlawful assemblies, and breaches of the peace, a legal bar to a subsequent indictment against the same party, for an assault and battery, in which, the breach of the peace, for which he was so fined, had been committed.

The answer to this question depends altogether on the proper constructive effect of the statute. And if that enactment stood alone, and had been…