Commonwealth v. Mervis
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 113, April T., 1913, by plaintiff, from order of County Court, Allegheny Co., No. 526, of 1912, reversing judgment of police magistrate in case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Mervis. Appeal from judgment of police magistrate. From the record it appeared that the defendant had been charged before the magistrate with holding a public meeting in the city of Pittsburg without notice thereof to the Bureau of Police and without a permit provided by the city ordinance.
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Appeal, No. 113, April T., 1913, by plaintiff, from order of County Court, Allegheny Co., No. 526, of 1912, reversing judgment of police magistrate in case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Mervis. Appeal from judgment of police magistrate. From the record it appeared that the defendant had been charged before the magistrate with holding a public meeting in the city of Pittsburg without notice thereof to the Bureau of Police and without a permit provided by the city ordinance. The ordinance in question was as follows: “That all street parades, processions, and street assemblages, occupying,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The appellee was summarily convicted before a magistrate of the violation of an ordinance of the city of Pittsburg, and upon appeal to the county court that court reversed the judgment and the commonwealth took this writ. In the court below the validity of the or-*181(finance was challenged on several grounds. We agree with that learned court it is too late to question the power of a municipality to enact police regulations of the general character of the one before us, or to successfully contend that such ordinances are an invasion of the private rights of the citizen because…
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