People ex rel. Deordio v. Palmer

The relator, who was sixteen years of age on the 23d day of April, 1929, was sentenced and committed to the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, N. Y., for an indeterminate period not to exceed three years, by a warrant issued on the 16th day of September, 1929, by one of the city magistrates of the city of New York.

The question for determination is whether or not this girl was properly convicted as a wayward minor and regularly committed to the Bedford Reformatory. In my opinion, she was neither legally convicted nor regularly committed.

The return to the writ made by the…