People ex rel. Childs v. Knott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the People of thé State of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 9th day of October, 1918, sustaining a writ of habeas corpus and discharging the relator from custody.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The petition of the relator shows that at an Extraordinary Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of New York a grand jury presented three indictments, copies of wMch are thereto annexed, against him on the 8th day of May, 1918, upon which he was on that day arraigned and admitted to bail in the sum of $1,000; that he had been surrendered by Ms surety to the custody of the sheriff of the county and warden of the city prison and was by them *606unlawfully and without due process of law restrained of his liberty in violation of the State and Federal Constitutions in that…
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