Holle v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collins, J.

This writ of error removes a conviction upon an indictment found and tried at September Term, 1896, in *534Essex county, and the sentence imposed thereon at that term of two years imprisonment at hard labor, for an assault with intent to kill.

The principal contention of the plaintiff in error is that the court that tried and sentenced him was not legally constituted, in that it was held by one judge instead of by two or more judges. The Courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the several counties of this state, after the revision of…