People ex rel. Deal v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Aaron P. Williams, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 11th day of November, 1899, granting an absolute writ of prohibition" to the relator, Frank H. Deal, "“ commanding the said Aaron P. Williams, a justice of the peace of the town of Green Island, and B. W. Clark-son, to desist and refrain from any and all further proceedings in a certain matter…
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Appeal by the defendant, Aaron P. Williams, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 11th day of November, 1899, granting an absolute writ of prohibition" to the relator, Frank H. Deal, "“ commanding the said Aaron P. Williams, a justice of the peace of the town of Green Island, and B. W. Clark-son, to desist and refrain from any and all further proceedings in a certain matter commenced before- the said Aaron P. Williams, a justice of the peace of the town of Green Island, on Sept. 27,1899, by B.…
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The appellant in September, 1899, was a justice of the peace. On the twenty-first of September the case of the People against Morrison, being a charge of a misdemeanor under section 117 of the Penal Code, was being tried before him as a Court of Special Sessions. "Upon this trial there was apparently considerable noise or other disturbance tending to interrupt the proceeding. On the twenty-seventh of September, upon an affidavit of B. W. Clarkson, a constable, to the effect that during the trial above referred to the relator, being in the court room, committed a criminal contempt,…
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