State v. Ward

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Proctor, J.

The defendant, Stephen Douglas Ward, was found guilty by a jury of possessing marihuana in violation of N. J. S. A. 24:18-4, and was sentenced to serve a State Prison term of two to three years and fined $100. He appealed his conviction and sentence to the Appellate Division. That court, in an unreported opinion, affirmed the conviction but expressed its view that a sentence to the reformatory rather than State Prison would have been more appropriate. It did not pursue the point, however, since defendant had recently been transferred to the…