Bailey v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Quarter Sessions of Bucks County. It was a prosecution against William Bailey, a justice of the peace, for refusing a copy of his proceedings in a suit before him. The indictment was in the following terms.
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This was a writ of error to the Quarter Sessions of Bucks County. It was a prosecution against William Bailey, a justice of the peace, for refusing a copy of his proceedings in a suit before him. The indictment was in the following terms. “ The grand inquest &c. do present, that William Bailey, late of the county aforesaid, yeoman, being a justice of the peace in and for the District numbered six, composed of the townships ofBuckingham and Solebury, in the said county of Bucks, duly commissioned and sworn to do the duties of the said office with fidelity and according to law, a certain suit…
1Per curiam
This indictment seems to have been drawn with an eye to the case of Wilson v. The Commonwealth, the circumstances of which are nearly the same; where it was held that the fee of twenty five cents allowed specifically by the fee bill then in force, for a copy of the judgment, was all that the party was bound to tender for a copy of the proceedings at large. This fee of twenty five cents is reduced by the present fee bill to eighteen cents and three quarters of a cent; but the phraseology as to this and almost all other items'remains the same. The decision then is in point, and being on the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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