§ MR. BIGGARasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, If his attention has been drawn to a case decided at Arva Petty Sessions, on the 1st instant, before a Mr. Tanner, J.P. who fined a man named Robert Connolly in the nominal sum of 1s. for firing a revolver at a girl named Brady; and, if he intends to remonstrate with the magistrate for what appears to be a miscarriage of justice?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)Connolly was summoned to Arva Petty Sessions under the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851, section 10, for "discharging a firearm on the public road." The maximum penalty for that offence is 10s, and Connolly was fined 1s. It is not within the province of the Attorney General to review the judicial action of a magistrate; but, if it was, I see nothing illegal in the present decision.