Commonwealth v. Seechrist

Citations

• 27 Pa. Super. 423
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 77

Syllabus

<p>Habeas corpus — Summary conviction — Fish laws — Justice of the peace — ■ Bes adjudicata.</p> <p>A writ of habeas corpus cannot be made a substitute for a writ of error, and where a party is in custody by virtue of a final decree or judgment, or process thereon, of a court of competent jurisdiction, no inquiry into the process which led to the decree is to be had, and no relief administered on habeas corpus.</p> <p>Where a person is summarily convicted before an alderman of using a fish basket without taking out its bottom at sunrise and keeping it out until sunset, and of using an eel basket without taking out a license, and he takes both an appeal and certiorari, and is defeated in both proceedings, he is not thereafter entitled to have the judgment reversed in habeas corpus proceedings.</p>