Commonwealth v. Gillespie
This text of 23 A. 393 (Commonwealth v. Gillespie) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Allegheny County Court of Quarter Sessions primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Whether pumping an oil well on the Sabhath is a work of necessity, within the meaning of the act of April 22, 1794, is a question of fact; and it has been decided against the defendants by the learned judge of the court below. It is idle, and a great waste of time, to bring such questions here upon a certiorari. The act of April 26,1855, P. L. 321, under which the fines [548]*548were imposed in these cases, does not provide for an appeal; and upon the writ of certiorari, as we have said in at least a hundred cases, we cannot review the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
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