State v. Saulnier

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Jacobs, J.

The defendant was found by the Burlington County Court to be a disorderly person for having possessed small quantities of marihuana and hashish in violation of N. J. S. A. 24:21-20(a) (3). He received a suspended jail term of three months and was placed on probation for a year with direction that he pay a fine of $250 in installments through the probation department. He appealed to the Appellate Division and that court reversed, in an unreported opinion which concluded that the County Court “was without jurisdiction to try the defendant as a…