Commonwealth v. Profit

Tilghman C. J.

This motion is founded on the twenty-first section of the act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia passed the 11th March 1789. By this law it is enacted, that any person aggrieved by any judgment of the Mayor’s Court, “may sue out and obtain his writ of error, which shall be granted of course, in like manner as other writs of error are granted and made returnable in the Supreme Court of this commonwealth, and shall be proceeded in under the *388same rules and regulations.” We must understand this provision with reference to the subject to which it is applied, viz. criminal…