LANZETTA v. NEW JERSEY

No. 308.

306 U.S. 451 (1939)

LANZETTA ET AL. v. NEW JERSEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel Kagle, with whom Messrs. George C. Klauder and Harry A. Mackey were on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. Robert Peacock, Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey, and French B. Loveland, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

By this appeal we are called on to decide whether, by reason of vagueness and uncertainty, a recent enactment of New Jersey, § 4, c. 155, Laws 1934, is repugnant to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It is as follows: "Any person not engaged in any lawful occupation, known to be a member of any gang consisting of two or more persons, who has been...

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