State v. Broome

*116The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The defendant' was indicted in the Hudson County Oyer and Terminer for misdemeanor in office, and, the indictment having been removed into this court, he now moves to quash it.

“The state claims,” to quote from the brief of;the learned prosecutor of the pleas, “ that the defendant was at the time the holder of an office, and that he was guilty of misconduct in that office. If the facts do not constitute this offence, then no offence was committed by him.”

The office which the indictment avers he held was that of “architect to supervise the…