State ex rel. Ortloff v. Linton

Mitchell, J.1

It is here sought by writ of certiorari to review the-action of the respondent as a justice of the peace in discharging, after an examination, a defendant brought before him on complaint and warrant under the provisions of Gen. St. 1878, c. 17, relating to bastards. The office of this writ, which is in the nature of appeal, is-to bring up for review the final determination of an inferior tribunal, which, if unreversed, would stand as a final adjudication of some legal right of the relator. As a reversal of the action of the-justice in the present case could not reinstate the…