Summary conviction

The conviction of a person, (usually for a minor misdemeanor,) as the result of his trial before a magistrate or court, without the intervention of a jury, which is authorized by statute in England and in many of the states. In these proceedings there is no intervention of a jury, but the party accused is acquitted or condemned by the suffrage of such Eerson only as the statute has appointed to be ls judge. A conviction reached on such a magistrate's trial is called a "summary conviction."

Brown; Blair v. Com., 25 Grat. (Vat) 853.