Commonwealth v. Collins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
QUO WARRANTO.—On the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, Mr Johnson, the attorney-general, filed in the supreme court a suggestion as follows: Pennsylvania, ss.—Be it remembered, that at a supreme court held at Harvisbuvg, in and for the middle district of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, comes Ovid F. Johnson, attorney-general of the said commonwealth, and on…
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QUO WARRANTO.—On the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, Mr Johnson, the attorney-general, filed in the supreme court a suggestion as follows: Pennsylvania, ss.—Be it remembered, that at a supreme court held at Harvisbuvg, in and for the middle district of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, comes Ovid F. Johnson, attorney-general of the said commonwealth, and on behalf of said commonwealth gives the said court here to know and be informed, that by the amended constitution of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedt, J.
Under the constitution of 1790, the tenure .of the judges of the courts therein specially mentioned was during good behaviour. By the amendments, however, as they are called, which, were agreed on and proposed by the convention of 1838, and approved by a majority of the electors, who voted on the question whether they should become part of the constitution or not, at the general election in that year, the tenure of the judges of the supreme court was changed to a term of fifteen years; the president judges of the several courts of common…
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