Commonwealth v. Washington

The circuit court having quashed a presentment against Joseph Washington, for obstructing a highway, the Commonwealth prosecutes this writ of error to reverso the judgment.

Whatever may have been the reason which influenced (-¡)e judgment of the circuit court, the judgment itself was right. The presentment shewed, that more than six mon{|ls |la(| elapsed from the date of the fact charged, to the finding of the presentment. Such prosecutions are limited to six months; and it is not necessary to plead the limitation to a penal statute : the penalty cannot be enforced unless the proceeding for…