State v. Seitz

Rodney, J.,

charged the jury, in part, as follows:

The defendant, Alfred J. P. Seitz, has been indicted by the grand jury of this county for an offense known as “Malfeasance in office.” There is no specific statute dealing in detailed terms with the offense of malfeasance in office, but there are many offenses at the common law for which no specific statute exists. By Sec. 5180, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, it is provided “assaults, batteries, nuisances, and all other offenses indictable at common law, and not specially provided for by statute, shall be deemed *574misdemeanors, and shall be…