In re the Presentment Made to Superior Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

The matters involved in this appeal are so vital to the sound administration of justice, and some of them are so widely misapprehended that we deem it essential to present the facts ■ and our views of the pertinent principles of law in considerable detail.

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An attempted jail break by one John Caruso, an inmate of the Camden County jail and a paroled murderer, precipitated a joint inquiry by the appellant as sheriff of Camden County and the county prosecutor into conditions at the jail. The investigation disclosed such serious misconduct…