This case comes before the court on a rule to show cause why an appeal should not be allowed from the imposition of costs amounting to about $18 upon defendant by an alderman upon a finding that a prosecution for assault and battery against her was not well founded.
The principle of imposition of costs upon a discharged defendant goes back at least to the Act of December...
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