Commonwealth v. Houck

Hipple, P. J.,

On October 27, 1941, at a regular term of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clinton County, an indictment was returned *688a true bill by the grand jury, empaneled and sworn for that term, charging defendant in the first count with simple assault and battery and in the second count with aggravated assault and battery upon the person of Ruth Andrews.

The indictment was based upon a transcript of proceedings before T. Mark Brungard, an alderman elected in the first ward of the City of Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pa. The information made before the aider-man charged defendant with the…