Rowand v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county, Nos. 53 and 54: To October and November Term 1876. The proceeding in the court below was thus:— At the June sessions of 1875 of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Allegheny county, A. H. Rowand, Jr., was held to bail upon two informations, upon charges of aggravated assault and battery, and assault and battery, and the grand jury ignored the bills founded upon these informations and ordered the county to pay the costs.
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county, Nos. 53 and 54: To October and November Term 1876. The proceeding in the court below was thus:— At the June sessions of 1875 of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Allegheny county, A. H. Rowand, Jr., was held to bail upon two informations, upon charges of aggravated assault and battery, and assault and battery, and the grand jury ignored the bills founded upon these informations and ordered the county to pay the costs. At the September sessions of the same year these informations without the permission of the court were sent before…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
Indictments in these two cases were preferred before the grand jury at the June Term of the Court of Quarter Sessions in 1875, and were returned “ ignoramus,” with a direction that the county should pay the costs. New indictments were sent to the next grand ju\’y at the September sessions 1875, and a “ true bill ” was returned in each case. Before the June Term Rowand, the defendant, had been held to'bail on informations made against him, and he was indicted in September for the offences charged in those informations. Expressing grave doubt of the legality of the proceeding, and emphatically…
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