State v. American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On indictment removed from the Morris Sessions. The following indictment was found at the October Term, 1886, of the Morris Oyer and Terminer, and was found under the act of the legislature of March 22d, 1886 : “ Morris county, to wit: The grand inquest for the State of New Jersey, in and for the body of the county of Morris, upon their oath present that the American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Company, a corporation, on the twenty-first day of April, in the year of our…
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On indictment removed from the Morris Sessions. The following indictment was found at the October Term, 1886, of the Morris Oyer and Terminer, and was found under the act of the legislature of March 22d, 1886 : “ Morris county, to wit: The grand inquest for the State of New Jersey, in and for the body of the county of Morris, upon their oath present that the American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Company, a corporation, on the twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ■and eighty-six, at the township of Roxbury, in the county of Morris aforesaid, and within…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
This is a motion to quash an indictment which has been removed from the Morris Quarter Sessions into this court. A copy of the indictment and of the act of the legislature under which it is found is hereto annexed.
The said act makes it a misdemeanor to place in or allow to flow or to be discharged into any pond, lake or stream stocked with or inhabited by trout, bass, pickerel, pike, sunfish or perch, any drug, acid, gas tar or any deleterious substance whatever which will kill or destroy said fish.
The first count of the indictment…
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