Hazen v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. The Supreme Court sitting at Harrisburg in tbe Middle District of the Court, on May 17, 1854, on application of counsel of defendants, granted a special allocatur in this case, returnable before the said Court on tbe 1st June, at Harrisburg, where tbe case was subsequently argued.
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Error to tbe Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. The Supreme Court sitting at Harrisburg in tbe Middle District of the Court, on May 17, 1854, on application of counsel of defendants, granted a special allocatur in this case, returnable before the said Court on tbe 1st June, at Harrisburg, where tbe case was subsequently argued. Hazen, Morris, Davis, and Lawson, two or more of whom were citizens of Ohio, were indicted for a conspiracy to solicit, induce, and procure the president, cashier, and directors of The Farmers’ Deposit Bank of Pittsburgh, and other persons named, to violate…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by.
Lewis, J.
This case came before us at the Middle District, on a writ of error directed to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county. As that county is part of the Western District, a question arises in relation to the power of this Court to hear and determine the cause out of its proper place. It is true that the parties do not raise the question; but as their consent cannot give jurisdiction, we are bound to ascertain, before we proceed, how far we have authority over the case. By the fourth section of the fifth article of the Constitution,…
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