Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant unlawfully usurped the public prosecutor's function by cancelling fines of order.
Decisão extraída
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.
Fundamentação extraída
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.