Petition of Kishbaugh

Citations

• 135 Pa. 468
• 19 A. 1063
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1206

Syllabus

<p>Under § 47, act of June 16, 1836, P. L. 740, a prosecutor sentenced by the Court of Quarter Sessions to pay or secure the payment of the costs of prósecution in a criminal case, and to stand committed until the sentence is complied with, may be discharged upon his making application for the benefit of the insolvent laws and complying with their provisions, without having undergone any actual imprisonment under the sentence.</p>