State v. Jefferson

The opinion of the court was delivered b,y

Garrison, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Quarter Sessions of Cape May county under an indictment *448for malfeasance in office as prosecutor of the pleas for that county. The malfeasance charged in the indictment was that the defendant, being the prosecutor of the pleas, and knowing of violations of the law against gambling, which it was his duty to prosecute, took money not to prosecute the offenders.

That such transactions, if' proved, constituted malfeasance in office cannot be denied; that there was testimony from which the jury could,…