Jerome v. Pratt

Paul E. Pratt and Robert J. Kress, Jr. are each charged with knowingly distributing advertising material at the home of a Tiverton resident without the owner’s consent and in violation of §3-28 of the town code. The two cases were consolidated and each defendant then moved to quash on the ground that the ordinance upon which the complaint and warrant were based was violative of and repugnant to the state and federal constitutions and beyond the authority of the town council to enact under the enabling legislation. After hearing arguments of counsel, which the parties agree were neither…