Byer v. Harris

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reed, J.

One Joe Pascale, on July 30th, 1908, complained on oath before Harry J. Harris, a police justice of the city of Trenton, that Isaac Byer, a licensed saloonkeeper in the city of Trenton, on Sunday, July 26th, did, in his saloon, sell and deliver to the said Joe Pascale two glasses and a half-pint bottle of whiskey, in violation of section 24 of the ordinance passed by the board of excise commissioners of the city of Trenton, by Teason of which he became liable to pay a penalty of $100.

Upon the trial of the prosecutor under this complaint, he was…