People v. Sohn

Crane, Ch. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction in the Magistrate’s Court of the city of New York for an alleged violation of subdivision 1 of section 887 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, sentencing the defendant to a term of three months in the workhouse. The judgment was affirmed by the Court of Special Sessions. The appeal comes here upon the certificate of a judge of this court, pursuant to section 520 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Title VI of the Code of Criminal Procedure is of proceedings respecting vagrants. Who are vagrants? Section 887 tells us in the following…