Wilson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
James Wilson, the defendant below, was convicted and sentenced in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Chester county, upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, and the proceedings were removed into this court by writ of error.
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James Wilson, the defendant below, was convicted and sentenced in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Chester county, upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, and the proceedings were removed into this court by writ of error. The first count of the indictment charged, that the defendant being a justice of the peace in the district number eight, Composed of the township of East and West Nottingham and Lower Oxford, in the county of Chester, duly commissioned and sworn to do the duties of the said office with fidelity and according to law, a certain suit was commenced and instituted before' him as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
This indictment is founded on the 23d sectionofthe act of 20th March, 1810. “It shall be the duty of the justice, on demand made either by plaintiff or defendant, to make out a copy of his proceedings at large, and deliver the said copy duly certified by him, to the party requiring the same, and if on such demand, he shall refuse so to do, it shall be a misdemeanor in office.”
The indictment contains two counts, one on the act of assembly, *375and the other at common law. There is no other difference between these two counts, except that the…
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