Court Opinion

ID: 7672235
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 00:54:14.921219+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:26:22.299134
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THE District Court of Fredericksburg, at its fall term, in 1803, adjourned to the general court this question, “ whether an attorney for the commonwealth, “ in a district court, hath right and authority to discon- “ tinue pros.ecatious, on penal statutes, for misdemeanors, “ and in criminal cases, without previously obtaining the “ leave of the court for that purpose.” The general court consisting of five judges, at the fall term oi 1803, unanimously decided, “ that the district court attorney has not “a right to enter a noli prosequi, in any case without the “ consent of the court first had.”