Martin v. Smith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The prosecutor, while desk sargeant in the seventh precinct police station in Jersey Citjr, was tried upon charges before the city commissioners, and again, upon appeal, before the civil service commissioners, and upon both trials was convicted of stating an untruth, concerning the theft of an envelope and its contents consisting of $100 in twenty-dollar bills, from one True, then in the custody of the police. The envelope had been handed to the prosecutor by a patrolman in the police station, but the prosecutor denied, having received it.…