STATE v. DUNPHY


19 N.J. 531 (1955)

117 A.2d 617

THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. CLIFFORD W. DUNPHY, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided November 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank G. Schlosser argued the cause for appellant (Mr. William George, attorney; Mr. Schlosser, of counsel).

Mr. Chester A. Weidenburner argued the cause for respondent (Mr. H. Russell Morss, Jr., Prosecutor of Union County, attorney).


The opinion of the court was delivered by WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR., J.

Dunphy was Chief of Police of the City of Rahway. He was convicted in the Union County Court upon one count, and acquitted upon the other, of a two-count indictment charging him with willful neglect of duty in knowingly not enforcing the gambling laws. The count upon which he was convicted charged him with knowingly not enforcing the gambling laws against one Louis J. Burke, a tavern keeper in Rahway...

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