Case Name: THE STATE against BRITON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 950
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE STATE against BRITON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 506–506

Head Matter:
THE STATE against BRITON.
The defendant was apprehended upon a charge of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, and was tried by two justices of the peace out of sessions, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison, and now brought a certiorari to reverse this sentence, and have the proceedings quashed.
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Wall, for the defendant.
The justices had no authority to try this cause. The authority of two justices out of sessions, to try in a summary way, does not extend to this offence, but is confined to larceny under six dollars.

Opinion:
By the Count.
The justices had no jurisdiction in this case; the proceeding was coram non judice, and is void.
Conviction quashed.