State v. Erie Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The defendant was indicted for maintaining a public nuisance in Jersey City, and after trial before the Hudson Quarter Sessions was convicted; from which judgment it ha§ taken a writ of error, reviewing the entire record of the case by the certificate of the trial judge under the one *232lnmdred and thirty-seventh section of the Criminal Procedure act. The indictment substantially charged that the defendant “unlawfully, negligently, unskillfully and unnecessarily” com- ' ducted its roundhouse, and conducted, drove, ran and moved its locomotive…