Court Opinion

ID: 3307282
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 17:21:41.397721+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:09.941122
License: Public Domain

I concur in the judgment upon the ground discussed by Justice Lorigan, and upon the further and to my mind more important and more satisfactory ground that the jurisdiction of offenses defined by state law must be regulated by general state law, and that such regulations cannot be altered or qualified by any provision of a freeholders' charter. The trial and punishment of offenses defined by the laws of the state is not a municipal affair. Jurisdiction of such offenses may be conferred upon police courts by act of the legislature, but cannot be conferred by special freeholders' charter, and certainly not in a manner which will impair the operation of general laws.
Henshaw, J., concurred. *Page 137