Case of Hummel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to the court of common pleas of Dauphin county, to remove their record in a certain proceeding against David Hummel and John Bishoff, commissioners of Dauphin county, for a contempt, under the following circumstances:— At August sessions, 1839, of the court of quarter sessions of Dauphin county, the court sustained a challenge to the array of grand and petit jurors, in consequence of a failure by the sheriff and commissioners of the county to make the selection…
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WRIT of error to the court of common pleas of Dauphin county, to remove their record in a certain proceeding against David Hummel and John Bishoff, commissioners of Dauphin county, for a contempt, under the following circumstances:— At August sessions, 1839, of the court of quarter sessions of Dauphin county, the court sustained a challenge to the array of grand and petit jurors, in consequence of a failure by the sheriff and commissioners of the county to make the selection of jurors for the service of the year 1839, in the manner directed by law. In noticing the irregularities which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The act of 16th of June 1836, relating to the jurisdiction and powers of courts, makes no change in the jurisdiction of the supreme court, so far as respects its superintendance over the proceedings of inferior courts. It expressly gives the court power to hear and determine all and all manner of pleas, plaints and causes which shall be brought or removed there from any other court of the commonwealth, by virtue of any writ or process issued from it, or any judge thereof, for that purpose in the manner now practised and alloioed, to examine…
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