Superior Court of New Hampshire December 15, 1833 (State v. Hascall)

ParkeR, J.

The motion of the prisoner for a new trial rests, in the first place, upon the want of evidence that the individual who acted as a magistrate, and before whom the perjury is alleged to have been committed, was a competent magistrate ; and because, if he was so, the pendency of the prisoner’s complaint before him was not proved by competent evidence;

Justices of the peace have a general