People ex rel. Gill v. Warden of City Prison
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Warden or Keepers of the City Prison, from an ex parte order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County. Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county, of Kings on the 14th day of October, 1912, sustaining a writ of habeas corpus and discharging the relator from custody.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The relator was arrested on the 27th day of September, 1912, and arraigned before a city magistrate in the borough of Brooklyn, charged with keeping and maintaining a disorderly house. The relator was held for examination, and thereafter *257she was surrendered to the warden and the bail theretofore given exonerated. The relator now asks to be discharged from custody on the ground that “no sufficient complaint has been made against your relator charging her with the commission of any crime or with any act which warrants her imprisonment.” The learned Special Term, on a hearing upon…
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- People v. WallachNew York Supreme Court · 1891
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