Case ID: njl_58/html/0555-01.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

JOHN C. WILKINS v. QUARTER SESSIONS OF CAMDEN COUNTY.
    The court may, of its own motion, dismiss a writ of cei-tiorari to review a judgment against the prosecutor in a criminal case without looking into the merits or the form in which they are sought to be presented, where the prosecutor fails to argue his case either orally or on brief, and shows no reason for not doing so.
    On certiorari.
    
    Argued at November Term, 1895, before Justices Garrison and Lippincott.
    For the prosecutor, John J. Orandall.
    
   Per Curiam.

This certiorari brings up the judgment in a criminal case. The court has been furnished with a copy of the files of the. office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, and nothing more. The case was not argued orally or upon brief. The prosecutor of the writ was neither excused from presenting his cause, nor has he shown any reason for not doing so. In such case the court may, of its own motion, dismiss the writ without looking at the merits or the form in which they are sought to be presented.