State v. Labato

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hehek, J.

The question here is the sufficiency of the plea of double jeopardy interposed by defendant Labato to an indictment returned in the Camden County Court on February 16, 1950, charging that on a given day he “unlawfully and knowingly did have in his possession certain paper, slips, documents and memorandum pertaining to the business of lottery policy, so-called and otherwise called under the name and style of numbers,” in contravention of B. S. 2:147-3. The plea proceeds from the conviction of the accused in the Police Court of the City of…