Appeal of the Commissioners
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county: No. 849, to January Term 1868. At the November Sessions 1866 of the Court of Quarter Sessions, the grand jury recommended that a new jail for the county be built, which the court approved, ordered to be filed and recorded, a copy given to the county commissioners and published.
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Appeal from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton county: No. 849, to January Term 1868. At the November Sessions 1866 of the Court of Quarter Sessions, the grand jury recommended that a new jail for the county be built, which the court approved, ordered to be filed and recorded, a copy given to the county commissioners and published. At the next sessions of the court, January 1867, the grand jury made a similar recommendation, which was approved by the court, who directed the report to be filed and recorded, and a copy given to the county commissioners and published. The court…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Sharswood, J.
By the Act of Assembly of May 22d 1722,
§§ 11, 13, 1 Sm. L. 139, 140, entitled “ An Act for establishing courts of judicature in this province,” the Supreme Court was invested with a general jurisdiction to revise the proceedings of all inferior tribunals, “ to examine and correct all and all manner of errors of the justices and magistrates in their judgments, process and proceedings,” “as fully and amply to all intents [and purposes whatsoever as the King’s Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster or any of them can do.” This…
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