State v. McCormack

McCormack, an acting justice of the peace, was indicted for failing to make out and file in the clerk’s office a list of all the fines, &c., assessed by him, since, &c., he having assessed upon, and collected of, divers persons, a large amount, to-wit, &c. The Court quashed the indictment because it did not contain the names of the persons against whom the fines had been assessed, and the state prosecutes this writ of error.

The provisions of the statute creating the offence charged are as follow: Section 41, p. 1009. “Each *306justice of the peace shall make out and file in the office of the…