People Ex Rel. Kopp v. Board of Police Commissioners
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court affirming the proceedings of the police commissioners of blew York city in dismissing the relator from the police force, on the ground that prior to his appointment he had been convicted of the crime of public intoxication. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
Section 268 of the blew York Consolidation Act, chapter 410 of the Laws of 1882, provides that-no person shall ever be appointed to membership in the police force, or permitted to hold membership therein, or be appointed a patrolman, “who shall have been convicted of any crime.” Bobert Xopp, the relator, was on the 12th of April, 1880, arrested for public intoxication in the city of blew York, and taken before a police justice and there charged with such intoxication and convicted thereof, and fined five dollars, which fine he paid. Thereafter, in July, 1883, he applied to the board of police…
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