Mayor of Rahway v. Hunt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This writ of certiorari brings under review a conviction of the prosecutors, had before a justice of the peace acting as a police justice of the city, for violation of one of the municipal ordinances.

On the part of the city, it is objected in limine that the proper method to review such a conviction is by appeal, and that therefore this writ should be dismissed. In order to determine the point an examination of the laws regulating the procedure becom'es necessary.

By the revised charter of the city of Rahway (Pamph. L. 1865, p. 499), it is, in…