State v. City of Camden
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. This writ brings up a conviction of the prosceutor by Police Justice Paul, of the city of Camden, upon a complaint that the prosecutor sold malt and spirituous liquors within the city of Camden without a license first obtained for that purpose. Upon the hearing,'the prosecutor admitted the sale of the liquor as charged.
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On certiorari. This writ brings up a conviction of the prosceutor by Police Justice Paul, of the city of Camden, upon a complaint that the prosecutor sold malt and spirituous liquors within the city of Camden without a license first obtained for that purpose. Upon the hearing,'the prosecutor admitted the sale of the liquor as charged. He offered in evidence a license certificate issued by the county board of license commissioners of Camden county, organized under “An act to create county boards of license commissioners and to define their powers .and duties,” approved March 20th, 1891. ■ This…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The important question presented by the record sent up is whether the certificate granted to the prosecutor by the county board of license commissioners of Camden county should have been adjudged a valid, existing license.
If it was such, it admittedly protected the prosecutor from prosecution for making sales of liquors, either spirituous or malt. The board which granted this license was itself created by an act approved March 20th, 1891. Pamph. L., p. 221.
At the present term of the Supreme Court, in the case of Loucks v. Bradshaw, ante p. 1,…
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