Court Opinion

ID: 7154319
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:05:17.877261+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:12.417364
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Lindsay:
The court below erred in setting aside the indictments in these prosecutions. The fact that one of the grand jurors by whom they were returned was, under the statute, incompetent, did not authorize that action. Commonwealth v. Patrick, Mss. Opinion; Commonwealth v. Smith, et al., 10 Bush 476.
This court has jurisdiction of these appeals. The penalty prescribed by the statute for selling or giving intoxicating liquor to a minor without proper authority is a fine of fifty dollars. Section I, Art. 22, Chap. 28, General Statutes, provides that “the court of appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction over the final orders and judgments of all other courts of this commonwealth, unless otherwise provided herein.” Sec. 2, of the same article and chapter, provides that, “no appeal shall be taken to' the court of appeals from a judgment for the recovery of money or personal property, if the value in controversy be less than fifty dollars, exclusive of costs.”
We have, heretofore, expressed the opinion and acted upon the idea that these provisions did not apply in criminal proceedings; but upon reconsideration, we are convinced that the language of Sec. 1 is comprehensive enough to embrace all proceedings, criminal and penal as well as civil.
Judgment reversed.