People ex rel. Holt v. Lambert

The relator’s discharge from custody on the writ of habeas corpus, so far as we are able to determine in the absence of an opinion at Special Term, was predicated upon the grounds: (1) That the judgment secured against her in the Municipal Court was not one on which a body execution could issue, or (2) that the provision in the judgment rendering the relator liable to arrest and imprisonment was inserted by the clerk without the authority of the trial justice.

Assuming without conceding that either or both of these facts have been established, we are still of the opinion that the relator’s…