People ex rel. Ryan v. Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Reargument of an appeal by the relator, Lillian Ryan, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at' the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 17th day of October, 1911, dismissing a writ of habeas corpus. ■ A reargument was ordered “ on the validity of the proceedings held on Sunday.” (148 App. Div. 928.)
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
The relator was tried on Sunday for sohciting in a public place for the purpose of prostitution, and was sentenced to the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford. Upon a plea of guilty taken on Sunday a woman was forthwith sentenced and committed to such reformatory, and the same was upheld in People ex rel. Price v. Warden, etc. (73 App. Div. 174). But in that case there was judgment upon plea on arraignment, while in the present instance a trial of an issue raised by a plea of not guilty was had. It is the general policy of the State that courts shall be closed on Sunday,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Price v. WardenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
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