People ex rel. Fyfe v. Collins

This is an application by relators by writ of habeas corpus for discharge from the House of Detention for Women pending an appeal from an allegedly unlawful sentence of the Court of Special Sessions.

Relators were convicted of the crimes of conspiracy to obstruct justice (Penal Law, § 580, subd. 6) and inducing another to withhold true testimony (Penal Law, § 813). Both counts were embodied in one information. On the conspiracy count relators were sentenced to the penitentiary and on the withholding count sentence was postponed until the termination of the sentence on the conspiracy count.

On…