¶1It is very clear that Andrews was not duly equipped according to law; and he was therefore liable to a fine. The evidence before the justice was sufficient to overrule the return of the clerk, which was obtained by a fraud practised upon him by Andrews, who ought to have been convicted. Let the proceedings be quashed.
9 Mass. 270
Commonwealth v. Bullard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 15, 1812
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1812-09-15
This was a writ of certiorari directed to a justice of the peace, commanding him to certify the proceedings had before him upon the complaint of Bullard, as clerk of a militia company, (against one Nahum Andrews, a private soldier in the same company,) at whose suit the writ of certiorari issued.
Decided 1812-09-15