Commonwealth v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Rule to show cause why the writ of certiorari, removing this case from the courts of criminal jurisdiction for the city and county of Philadelphia, should not be quashed.
1Opinion of the Court
The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court, delivered by
Lewis, C. J.
— This motion raises the question, whether the Supreme Court has authority to remove, for the purpose of trial, the cases pending and undetermined in the courts of criminal jurisdiction of the city of Philadelphia. The Act of 22d May, 1722, (1 Smith’s Laws, 140,) established the Supreme Court, and clothed it with powerto hear and determine, all and all manner of pleas, plaints, and causes which shall be removed and brought there, from the respective G-eneral Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Courts of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. M'GinnisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1837
3Cited by8 opinions
- American Soda Fountain Co. v. StolzenbachSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1908
- Summers v. KramerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Commonwealth v. GibbonsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Commonwealth v. FrowenfieldSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861
- Commonwealth v. Burns, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Beaver County1969
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