Harris v. People
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, to review judgment affirming a judgment of the City Court of Long Island City, convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of burglary. The said City Court was created by and organized under the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to revise the charter of Long Island City.”
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, to review judgment affirming a judgment of the City Court of Long Island City, convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of burglary. The said City Court was created by and organized under the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to revise the charter of Long Island City.” (Chap. 461, Laws of 1871.) . Tiie indictment under which the plaintiff in error was tried and convicted charged that he, at Long Island City, in the county of Queens, on the 3d day of January, 1874, “about the hour of twelve o’clock in…
1Opinion of the CourtFolger, J.
It is claimed that the City Court of Long Island City, before which the plaintiff in error was convicted, has no constitutional existence. That court was created by chapter 460, of the Laws of 1871. The act is entitled, “An act to revise the charter of Long Island City.” The specific point made is, that the act is a local act, that it contains more than one subject, and that the title does not express the subject of the erection of that court. Probably the rule in Huber v. The People (49 N. Y., 132), would make this a local act. But for the purposes of this case we may concede that it is,…
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- People Ex Rel. Lee v. Board of SupervisorsNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Huber v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Ratzky v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1864
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