State v. Peck
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information by the state’s attorney to the superior court, for a breach of the peace. The defendant moved that the case be erased from the docket for want of jurisdiction, and the question arising on the motion was reserved for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
The defendant was brought before the superior court, upon a warrant issued from that court, on an information filed by the state’s attorney, for an ordinary breach of the peace, in having committed an assault and battery upon the body of Charles Treat. As there had been no preliminary proceedings before a justice of the peace, or any other tribunal from which his case might have been sent or appealed to the superior court, he moved that court to erase the cause from *467the docket, on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to hear and determine a criminal case, thus brought to it, where…
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