State v. Corson
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. The following indictment has been removed into this court and a motion made to quash it: “Cumberland County, to wit.
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On certiorari. The following indictment has been removed into this court and a motion made to quash it: “Cumberland County, to wit. “The Grand Inquest, for the State of New Jersey, and for the body of the county of Cumberland, upon their respective oaths or affirmations, present that Isaac Corson, Jr., late of the township of Commercial, in the county of Cumberland, on the tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, at the township of Commercial, in the county of Cumberland aforesaid> and within the jurisdiction of this court, unlawfully did dredge upon and throw…
1Opinion of the Court
*503The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
This indictment must be quashed for the reason first stated by the prosecutors of this certiorari, viz., “because it does not set forth any crime or indictable offence.” It simply avers that Corson, the defendant, unlawfully dredged the oyster bed of one Hager without the permission of Hager, who was the lessee of the said bed. It was without doubt the object of the pleader to charge that the “state oyster commission” had made the lease by virtue of which Hager’s permission was requisite, under chapter 194 of the laws of 1899. This,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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