Commonwealth v. Pennock
This text of 3 Serg. & Rawle 199 (Commonwealth v. Pennock) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
refused to grant a writ of error. They were of opinion, that the house was sufficiently described as a dwelling house by the word mansion. And as to the forfeiture, although the judgment would have been better without it, yet the defendant suffered no injury by it; as the law would have implied the forfeiture, though not part of the judgment. Writs of error ought not to be allowed merely for the sake of reversing a judgment, where the merits have been fairly tried, and the defendant has suffered no wrong by the judgment.
Motion denied.
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