Error v. Barts

Decision Date04 January 1945
Docket NumberNo. 35.,35.
Citation40 A.2d 639,132 N.J.L. 420
PartiesSTATE of New Jersey, Defendant in Error, v. Charles A. BARTS, Plaintiff in Error.
CourtNew Jersey Supreme Court

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Error to Supreme Court.

Oliver Randolph, of Newark, for plaintiff in error.

Wm. A. Wachenfeld, of Newark, for defendant in error.

PER CURIAM.

The judgment under review herein should be affirmed for the reasons expressed in the opinion delivered by Brogan, C. J., in the Supreme Court, reported at 132 N.J.L. 74, 38 A.2d 838.

For affirmance: The CHANCELLOR, Justices PARKER, CASE, BODINE, and PORTER, and Judges WELLS, RAFFERTY, HAGUE, THOMPSON, and DILL-10.

For reversal: Justice COLIE-1.

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  • State v. Begyn
    • United States
    • New Jersey Supreme Court
    • January 10, 1961
    ...present day scope was announced in State v. Barts, 132 N.J.L. 74, 38 A.2d 838, 841 (Sup.Ct.1944), affirmed opinion below 132 N.J.L. 420, 40 A.2d 639 (E. & A. 1945). There on the trial of an indictment under the statute the State's proofs showed that a police officer of another state had dem......
  • State v. Sinnott
    • United States
    • New Jersey Supreme Court
    • June 3, 1957
    ...Williams, 16 N.J.Super. 372, 84 A.2d 756 (App.Div.1951); State v. Barts, 132 N.J.L. 74, 38 A.2d 838 (Sup.Ct.1944), affirmed 132 N.J.L. 420, 40 A.2d 639 (E. & A.1945). We are not so unreasonably fettered by tradition as to disregard an innovation when we are more than marginally assured it i......
  • State v. Weleck
    • United States
    • New Jersey Supreme Court
    • October 20, 1952
    ...230, § 23.' The crime is similarly defined in State v. Barts, 132 N.J.L. 74, 79, 38 A.2d 838, 843 (Sup.Ct.1944), affirmed 132 N.J.L. 420, 40 A.2d 639 (E. & A.1945): 'Extortion, in a comprehensive sense, signifies any oppression under color of right. Russell on Crimes, 305. In the strict sen......
  • State v. Savoie
    • United States
    • New Jersey Supreme Court
    • June 16, 1975
    ...Revision of Title 2 in 1952 (the present statute). In State v. Barts, 132 N.J.L. 74, 38 A.2d 838 (Sup.Ct.1944), aff'd o.b. 132 N.J.L. 420, 40 A.2d 639 (E. & A.1945), the court sustained a conviction under the act of a police officer who had demanded money Not to arrest a person who had comm......
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