People ex rel. Davis v. Sheriff of Otsego County

This is an application by relator for a writ of habeas corpus.

*232In February of 1956, the relator was charged with the crime of assault in the third degree upon an information which alleged as follows — that the defendant ‘ ‘ on the 14th day of February, 1956, at 421 Chestnut Street, Oneonta, New York, in the Town of Oneonta, at about 1:40 o ’clock in the forenoon of said day, did commit the crime of assault, third degree, by assaulting the informant — to wit, did strike the informant several times about the head and shoulders with his clenched fist

Thereafter and on or about February 21, 1956,…