People ex rel. Bedell v. Kinney
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John F. Kinney, sherifi of Niagara county, from an order of the Supreme Court, made- at the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Niagara on the 7th day of May, 1897, upon the return to a writ of habeas corpus, directing that the relator be discharged from imprisonment on the 23d day of July, 1897. Further facts are stated in the dissenting opinion.
1DissentWard, J.
The relator was convicted for a violation of the Liquor Tax Law on the 23d of January, 1897, in the Niagara County Court and sentenced by that court to be imprisoned in the Niagara county jail at hard labor for the term of six months and to pay a fine of $1,050, or to be imprisoned until the fine was satisfied, not exceeding 1,050 days. The defendant was a saloonkeeper in Lockport, N. Y. lie had not obtained a liquor tax certificate. The amount of tax imposed upon a person trafficking in liquors as a keeper of a saloon in the city of Lockport was, in the year 1896, after the enactment of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Ex Parte LangeSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- People Ex Rel. Tweed v. . LiscombNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- People Ex Rel. Trainor v. BakerNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
- People ex rel. O'Brien v. WoodworthNew York Supreme Court · 1894
- People v. SuttonNew York Supreme Court · 1889