Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1833

Commonwealth v. Meckling

Commonwealth v. Meckling
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided October 15, 1833
2 Watts 130

Commonwealth v. Meckling

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The docket of the justice was competent evidence if duly authenticated. The receipt of the jailor was properly excluded for the variance as the declaration stood; but the description of it ought to have been amended. The case was within not only the true intent of the act of assembly, but the express provision; and the denial of the amendment was error.

Judgment reversed, and a venire ele novo awarded.

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