Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Flinn v. Barr
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 29, 1931PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFrankenthaler, J.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The relators are held under two indictments, found by the regular March, 1930, grand jury of New York county, for the crime of manslaughter in the second degree, charging them with causing the deaths of Edna Burford and Catherine Porter on December 10, 1929, in a conflagration occasioned by the alleged culpably negligent operation of the Pathé Motion Picture Studio in the building Nos. 1988-1994 Park avenue, in the city and.county of New York. Ten lives were lost in the catastrophe. Prior to the submission of the charges to the March grand jury…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Morey v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Burton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- People Ex Rel. Perkins v. . MossNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
- People v. BrannonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1924
- Commonwealth v. BrowningCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1912
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- People ex rel. Fisher v. MorhousNew York Supreme Court · 1944
- People ex rel. Lalley v. BarrAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1931
- People v. MacchioNassau County District Court · 1970