Anspach v. Rider

Appeal from an order of the Special Term of the Supreme Court, Albany county, denying petitioner’s application for an alternative order of prohibition. On September 10, 1935, petitioner, pursuant to a warrant issued for his arrest, appeared before a justice of the peace at New Lebanon, N. Y., and pleaded not guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident without making himself known. A trial was had on September 18, 1935, which resulted in a disagreement of the jury, and, at the request of petitioner’s attorney, the drawing of a jury was postponed to such time as would be convenient…