Case Name: COMMONWEALTH vs. RESSEQUI
Court: Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1879-05-09
Citations: 1 Law Times (N.S.) 124
Docket Number: 
Parties: COMMONWEALTH vs. RESSEQUI.
Judges: 
Reporter: Law Times (New Series)
Volume: 1
Pages: 124–125

Head Matter:
COMMONWEALTH vs. RESSEQUI.
MotxoN bob, Habeas ( oRpus.,
Upon a summary conviction before an Alderman the penalty imposed must be strictly in accordance with the Act of Assembly imposing it.
The prisoner was arrested on view of the Chief of Police.of the City of Carbondale, and taken before an alderman where he was charged with cruelty to animals, in letting his team of horses stand in the street without feed or care for an unreasonable length of time.
After hearing, the prisoner was summarily convicted and sentenced to pay a tine of ten dollars and the costs of suit, one-half oi said tine to be for the complainant .and the other half to be for the County of Lackawanna.
In delimit of } aying this tine and costs the prisoner was committed by the alderman to the county'prison.
AmermaN for prisoner. The prisoner should be discharged for the alderman could not impose a tine tó b.e paid to the complainant, and to the County.
Pardon, 327 pi. 62.
Act of 2d June, 1871. P. L. 290.

Opinion:
The Court.
IIahd. J.
It appears in this case that Samuel Kessequi is imprisoned tpon a summary conviction before Alderman Thompson and that the penalty imposed is not in accordance with the Act of Assembly which requires that it should be paid to the "Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals."
The prisoner is discharged.