People Ex Rel. Clark v. Keeper of New York State Reformatory for Women
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered March 6, 1903, which affirmed an order of Special Termsustaining writs of habeas corpus and certiorari and discharging the relator from custody. ■The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The commitment was authorized by section 146 of the State Charities Law.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered March 6, 1903, which affirmed an order of Special Termsustaining writs of habeas corpus and certiorari and discharging the relator from custody. ■The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The commitment was authorized by section 146 of the State Charities Law. (L. 1896, ch. 546; L. 1899, ch. 632: People ex rel. v. Coon, 67 Hun, 523; 51 N. Y. S. R. 339; People v. Cowie, 88 Hun, 498; People ex rel. v. Superintendent, etc., 33 Misc. Rep. 245.) The city magistrate had…
1Opinion of the Court
Werner, J.'
On the 31st day of May, 1902, the relator was sen-tended by a New York city magistrate to the State Reformatory at Bedford, N. Y., under the authority of section 146 of the State Charities Law (Chap. 26, Gen. Laws), ' which provides, in substance, that a female between the ages of fifteen and thirty years, who has been convicted by a magistrate of petit larceny, habitual drunkenness, of being a common prostitute, of frequenting disorderly houses or houses of prostitution, or of a misdemeanor, and who is not insane nor mentally or physically incapable of being benefit-, ed by…
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