Huntingdon County v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county: Of May Term 1872, No. 39. This was a mandamus at the relation of A. B. Crewitt and others, against the County Commissioners of Huntingdon county, commanding them to pay the relators the costs of the defendant in the case of the Commonwealth against A. H. Crewitt, who had been indicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for murder and acquitted.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county: Of May Term 1872, No. 39. This was a mandamus at the relation of A. B. Crewitt and others, against the County Commissioners of Huntingdon county, commanding them to pay the relators the costs of the defendant in the case of the Commonwealth against A. H. Crewitt, who had been indicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for murder and acquitted. A. H. Crewitt, who had been bound over to January Term 1870, on the 11th of that month, petitioned the court setting forth that he was unable to pay the expenses of his witnesses and other…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,-by
Thompson, C. J.
— We said in the case of The County of Franklin v. Conrad, 12 Casey 317, “ that the recovery and payment of costs in criminal cases are so entirely dependent on statutory regulations in Pennsylvania, that it is indispensable for every claimant to be able to point to the statute which entitles him to receive what he claims.”
It is not worth while to inquire into the right of the defendant to prosecute the mandamus in this case without making it appear that he had paid the bill and was entitled to receive the costs; without resolving this,…
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