People v. Maher

Crain, J.:

The appellant, upon her plea of guilty, was convicted on August 10, 1915, in a City Magistrate’s Court, of vagrancy, as defined by section 150, chapter 99, of the Laws of 1909, as amended. She was sentenced to the Roman Catholic House of the Good Shepherd. She is now serving such sentence. She has appealed from the judgment of conviction. She claims that the return shows upon its face that the learned magistrate held that he was without power to suspend sentence and place her upon probation and that had he believed himself possessed of such power he would have suspended sentence and…