State ex rel. Quinn v. District Court of the Second Judicial District
Nevada Supreme Court
CERTIORARI before the Supreme Court. The facts appear in the opinion. The action of the court in allowing costs is reviewable by certiorari. There is no statute restricting the office of tbe writ of certiorari, except in civil cases. The grant of power to this court, found in the constitution, relates to this remedy as it was at common law.. At common law its office was to correct errors. (Bac. Abr., Title Certiorari; Blacks tone, book 4, 320, 321; Peoples.
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CERTIORARI before the Supreme Court. The facts appear in the opinion. The action of the court in allowing costs is reviewable by certiorari. There is no statute restricting the office of tbe writ of certiorari, except in civil cases. The grant of power to this court, found in the constitution, relates to this remedy as it was at common law.. At common law its office was to correct errors. (Bac. Abr., Title Certiorari; Blacks tone, book 4, 320, 321; Peoples. Turner, 1 Cal. 152; Z7. 8. v. Young, 4 Otto, 259; Ilyden v. State, 40 Ga. 476; Gilliam v. State, 32 Id. Ill; Peters v. Stale, 9 Id. 109.)
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, J.:
Relator contends that the district court exceeded its jurisdiction in rendering the following judgment: “Defendant, J. J. Quinn, having been duly convicted of the crime of an assault, it is hereby ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said J. J. Quinn do pay a fine of five hundred dollars, gold coin, and costs of this action, amounting to three hundred dollars and fifty cents, making in all eight hundred dollars and fifty cents, gold coin; and it is further ordered' that the defendant be confined in the common jail of "Washoe county, Nevada, one day tor each two…
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