Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 1851

State v. Wormell

State v. Wormell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Decided July 1, 1851 · Orally, Shepley
33 Me. 200

State v. Wormell

Opinion of the Court

Shepley, C. J., orally.

— In two respects the recognizance is fatally defective : —

1. It does not show jurisdiction in the justice to take any recognizance.

*2012. The statute limits to $20, the penal sum in which a justice is authorized to take a recognizance in a case like this.

Judgment for defendant, for costs.

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