Case ID: pa-super_76/html/0156-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Trexler, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Smith and Dandreas.
    Argued December 6, 1920.
    Appeal, No. 216, Oct. T., 1920, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Delaware County, June T., 1919, No. 590, on certiorari to judgment of justice of the peace in the case of Commonwealth, of Pennsylvania v. Howard Smith and T. Dandreas.
    Before Orlad y, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Head, Trex-ler, Keller and Linn, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Certiorari from judgment of justice of the peace. Before Broomall, J.
    The court below made the following order, from which Commonwealth appealed:
    By the return of the magistrate in the above case, it appears that the magistrate did not convict the defendants or find them guilty of the offense charged, neither did they plead guilty to the commission of the offense. It, therefore, follows that the magistrate had no authority to impose a fine.
    Therefore, we make the following order:
    The exceptions are dismissed save the ninth exception which is sustained, and the record of the magistrate is quashed.
    
      Error assigned was the order of the court.
    
      E. Wallace Chadwick, and with him William I. Schaf-fer and Arthur L. Reeser and William J. McCarter, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for appellant.
    
      Howard M. Lut% for appellee.
    March 5, 1921:
   Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

For the reasons set forth in opinion heretofore filed in the Township of Haverford v. William Armstrong et al., No. 214, October Term, 1920, the judgment of the court is reversed, and the record remanded with instructions that the writ of certiorari be quashed. Appellees for costs.