People ex rel. Thompson v. Waters

This is the return of a writ of habeas corpus directed to Moses Waters, Superintendent of the Onondaga County Penitentiary.

The certificate of conviction, signed by James E. Casey, Police Justice of the Village of Ilion, N. Y., issued from a Court of Special Sessions, on October 14, 1943, recites that, having been duly convicted, it was adjudged that John Thompson, defendant, for public intoxication “ be imprisoned ” in the Onondaga County Penitentiary “ one hundred and eighty days (180) * * * and in addition thereto to pay a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) or be confined ” in said penitentiary…