Campbell v. Board of Police Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

The writ in this case brings up the conviction of the prosecutor of the violation of rule 14 of the code of discipline of the police department of the city of Newark.

Two complaints or charges were made against the prosecutor :

First. Absence without leave.

Second. That he had violated the criminal law.

He was shown to have been out of the city on a trolley car, in citizen clothes, when off duty, and he admitted his absence was without leave.

This complaint was evidently deemed trivial, and tire record does not show that it was ever reduced to a…