State v. Goodman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jacobs, J.

This is an appeal, certified to this court on its own motion, from judgments of conviction for conspiracy to extort, entered in the Essex County Court.'

The defendant Ira Goodman is Deputy Director of the Department of Public Affairs of the City of Newark. The Newark Department of Health is within the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Affairs and Goodman has exercised supervisory power over it since his appointment in May, 1949. The defendant Richard P. Powell is a sanitary inspector in the Pood and Drug Division of the Department of…