In re Criminal Complaint & Application for Arrest Warrant

Summary

The court held that a person seeking review by writ of error need not establish statutory aggrievement because the writ is a common-law form of appellate review. It nevertheless dismissed the writ for lack of classical aggrievement, concluding that private electors have no specific, personal, and legal interest in the arrest or prosecution of alleged election-law violators. Justice Ecker concurred in the judgment but would have dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs used a writ of error rather than a direct appeal.