Preusser v. Cass

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Magie, J.

The certiorari in this cause has brought here proceedings taken against prosecutor under the sixth section of the “Act cosicerning disorderly persons,” approved April 9th, 1875. Rev., p. 303.

By the provisions of that section, persons who commit certain offences therein specified are declared to be disorderly; they may be apprehended in the manner afterward described in the act, and taken before a justice of the peace of the county or a police justice of the city, and thereupon it shall be the duty of such justice to commit such person, when…