1880 History of Blair County - Johnstown, PA

HISTORY OI-" ALTCONA AM) HLAIll COl,\NTV. 37a di\-on'c was (Iccrccd tlicrcon liy Jiiduc Bhick, March 25, 1S47. Tlic.entire costs were $7. To. Divorces iiM\c hccoinc more costly since." In the lirst year of the court (W;! cases were entt.'red in the CommonPicas, includin,n- orli)-inal writs, certioraris and appeals. In liS5(;,ten years later, 1, ()',)(); in ISIW;, ten years later, 1,1U(); in ISTC, tenyears later, "2,717. Many of the cases inclinled in this last nund)er arejudgments on Iniildinu' association honds; hut still, the natural increasein legal business, tlie last ten, has hecn much greater than inany i)receding ten years.[We cannot find room for tlie cases tried in the Sui)rcme Court, to^vhich Judge Dean makes reference.]"There have licen tried in the Oyer and Tei'niiner thirty cases ofhomicide. Of these eleven were found not guilty; three, AlexanderHutchinson, James Siiirley and David McKim, were found guilty ofmurder in the first degret-. Tlie lirst, Hutchinson, was tried in 1850.After sentence his friends induced the Legislature to interfere l)y attemptinglegislation to relieve him from the death penalty. Nothing