Brownbridge v. People

The plaintiffs in error were tried before a justice of the peace and a jury on a charge of assault and battery and found guilty. The justice forthwith passed and recorded sentence in these terms: “Therefore it was adjudged and determined by me that the defendants, Thomas Brownbridge and Scott Smith, pay a fine of thirty dollars each, and in default thereof to be committed to the common jail of the county for the period of thirty days each.”

The case was removed to the circuit court by statutory certiorari, and that tribunal affirmed the judgment with costs to The People and ordered that…