People v. Upson
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of sessions, Monroe county. Joseph S. Upson was convicted of keeping a disorderly house, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The question in the case is of the jurisdiction of the police justice of Rochester, sitting as a court of special sessions, to try, and render judgment in, the case of a complaint under section 322 of the Penal Code. The offenses there defined are not among those enumerated in section 56 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as being within the jurisdiction of courts of special sessions; so that by virtue, merely, of an authority to hold courts of special sessions, with all the jurisdiction belonging to those courts in general, the police justice of Rochester was not empowered to hear and…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Heckmann v. . PinkneyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
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- The People Ex Rel. Sinkler v. . TerryNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Lewis v. . GollnerNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Geraty v. . ReidNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
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