People ex rel. Frank v. Davis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Katherine Bement Davis, superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, New York, and others, the defendants in the three above-entitled actions, from an order of the Supreme Court, made in each of the above-entitled actions at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, in the case of Clark, on the 14th day of June, 1902, in the case of Smith, on the 18th day of June, 1902, and in the case of Frank, on…
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Appeal by Katherine Bement Davis, superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, New York, and others, the defendants in the three above-entitled actions, from an order of the Supreme Court, made in each of the above-entitled actions at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, in the case of Clark, on the 14th day of June, 1902, in the case of Smith, on the 18th day of June, 1902, and in the case of Frank, on the 11th day of September, 1902, sustaining writs of habeas corpus and certiorari theretofore allowed in behalf of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The relator Frank was confined in the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford under and by virtue of a warrant of commitment signed by one of the city magistrates. The return to the writ of habeas corpus shows that an information in writing, under oath, had been laid before the magistrate charging the relator, Rosie Frank, a female between the ages of fifteen and thirty years, with “ disorderly conduct in that she did on the 27th day of December, 1901, solicited * men for the purpose of prostitution, committed at East 97th street, on the 27th day of December, 1901,” and the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Tweed v. . LiscombNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- People Ex Rel. Allen v. . HaganNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
- People v. HinesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
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- People ex rel. St. Clair v. DavisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911
- People ex rel. Smith v. Van De CarrAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
- People v. RockwellCriminal Court of the City of New York · 1963
- People v. LipschitzNew York Supreme Court · 1923
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