People ex rel. Peltz v. Brewster

The court below held that the commitment of the relator was unlawful, but dismissed the Writ of habeas corpus and remanded her to the custody of the sheriff with directions to proceed in accordance with section 227 of the State Charities Law, by taking relator before a city magistrate to be dealt with as though she had not been previously committed. The writ was sued out to procure relator’s release from the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford to which she had been committed by a magistrate for an indeterminate period not to exceed three years under section 913-c of the Code of Criminal…