McKenna v. City of Paterson

This writ brings up the conviction of prosecutor on a complaint charging a violation of section 6 of an ordinance of the city of Paterson, entitled “An ordinance to license and regulate the business of transient merchants or itinerant vendors in the city of Paterson,” approved December 19th, 1931. The return to the writ includes a stenographic transcript of the testimony taken on the hearing of the complaint.

It is necessary to consider only one of the reasons advanced by prosecutor for setting aside the conviction, viz., that the complaint did not charge a violation of the ordinance. The…