Treasurer of City of Elizabeth v. Lytton
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari.
1Opinion of the Court
*372The opinion of the court was delivered by
Trenchard, J.
The prosecutor, Nellie Lytton, was convicted in the Elizabeth police court of publicly “dancing and performing feats of uncommon dexterit}7 and agility of -the body,” for gain or reward, in a ball in Elizabeth, without first having obtained a license for that purpose, contrary to section 190 of an ordinance of that city.
The writ brings under review the legality of that conviction. Many reasons-for reversal were filed, but counsel for the prosecutor has condensed them into one proposition which he has thus expressed in his brief: “The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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