People ex rel. Langan v. Hayden

This is a certiorari to review a decision of the respondent dismissing the relator from the police force of the city of Brooklyn for alleged misconduct. We think there was no legal error committed on the trial of the relator. The second charge at least set out a substantial offense, to wit, that of being engaged in a fight with certain named persons, “during which he is accused of attempting to shoot George Myer.” The criticism on this specification— that it does not charge that, as a matter of fact, the relator did attempt to shoot, but merely that he was accused of attempting to shoot—is…