Case Name: Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Smith and Dandreas
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1921-03-05
Citations: 76 Pa. Super. 156
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 216
Parties: Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Smith and Dandreas.
Judges: Before Orlad y, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Head, Trex-ler, Keller and Linn, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 76
Pages: 156–157

Head Matter:
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 judg ment 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:
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.