State v. Pillo

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William J. Brennan, Jr., J.

The Constitution of 1947 empowers the Chief Justice to assign any county judge “to sit temporarily in the Superior Court,” Art. XI, Sec. IV, par. 5. In the instant ease a judgment of conviction for criminal contempt was entered in a Superior Court proceeding presided over by a county judge whose authority to preside was not questioned by the defendant at any time during the course of the proceeding. His objection that an assignment of the county judge to sit temporarily in the Superior Court must appear was made for the first…