People v. Johnson

By the Court, Sprague, J.:

The defendants being on trial for grand larceny, the prosecution called as a witness the Justice of the Peace before whom the prisoners had had a preliminary examination upon the charge, and by whom they had been committed to answer before indictment. The witness having stated that the prisoners were brought before him, as a magistrate, for preliminary examination, “ acknowledged that they took the property charged to have been taken,” and made a statement, which he reduced to writing, and which they each signed, after, it had been carefully read over to them, that “…