Case ID: nj-misc_2/html/0474-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELIZABETH SMITH, PROSECUTOR, v. MRS CARL NAGEL AND CHARLES F. ADAM, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PASSAIC, RESPONDENTS.
    Submitted March 21, 1924
    Decided May 31, 1924.
    Justice of Peace — Conviction—Several Offenses Charged, None of Which Show Statute or Ordinance Violated.
    On certiorari, Sc.
    
    Before Justices Teen chard, Parker, and Campbell.
    For the prosecutor, J. Chester Massinger.
    
   Per Curiam.

This writ brings up a conviction of the prosecutor by a justice of the peace “of the offense as charged in the complaint.”

Turning to the complaint we see that several distinct matters are therein charged. As to most of them, it is.clear that they constitute no violation of any statute or ordinance, and, as to those which conceivably do-, there is nothing to show what statute or ordinance has been violated.

It is therefore certain that the conviction cannot stand. It will be set aside, but without costs.