People ex rel. Lewisohn v. Court of General Sessions
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 20th day of May, 1904, directed to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York and Martin T. McMahon, a judge of said court, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular their proceedings had in committing the relator for contempt of court.
1Dissent
McLaughlin, J. (dissenting):
The relator was adjudged guilty of a criminal contempt because he refused to answer certain questions put to him by the foreman of the grand jury of the county of New York. By writ of certiorari he asks this court to review, and if error were committed to reverse, the action of the court below. The grand jury,, at the time the-. *208questions were asked, was investigating a charge which had been made against one Canfield, to the effect that between the 1st day of January, 1901, and the 1st day of December,, 1902, he had violated •section 344 of the Penal Code, which…
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