Commonwealth v. Mortimer

delivered the resolution of the Court, as follows:

1. That the acquittal of the said James Mortimer, of the offence charged in the aforesaid Indictment, under the circumstances set forth in the record,, would not be a good bar, in Raw, to an Indictmént which may hereafter be exhibited against -him" for burning the barn of Josias Thompson.

2. That the said James Mortimer ought not now to be discharged from custody. Which is ordered to be certified.