Smith v. Jerome
New York Supreme Court
Suit for mandatory injunction that the defendants, who are the district attorney, and an assistant district attorney, of the county of New York, deliver over to the plaintiff certain letters received by him and his wife, and taken from them by the police. Motion for injunction pending the suit.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The plaintiff and his wife were indicted with another for the crime of conspiracy in the county of Hew York. They were thereafter arrested by the police in Cincinnati as fugitives from justice, and brought back under a requisition of the Governor of the State of Hew York upon such indictment, or else they came back voluntarily, and they are now detained for trial. The head of the Cincinnati police sent to the district attorney of Hew York by mail certain letters addressed to the plaintiff and to his wife which the police of Cincinnati found on a search of their room and effects at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Houghton v. BachmanNew York Supreme Court · 1866
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