Key legal question
Whether the appellant unlawfully usurped the public prosecutor's function by cancelling fines of order.
Extracted holding
Yes. The cantonal law did not give him competence to annul those fines, and his written cancellations materially amounted to decisions belonging to the prosecutor's judicial function.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the alleged custom did not meet the strict requirements for customary law, no lawful delegation existed, and the appellant knowingly acted outside his formal powers with an illicit purpose.