People v. Champlin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William 0. Ohamplin, from a judgment of the County Court of Dutchess county, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 19th day of June, 1906, affirming a judgment of a justice of the peace of the .town of Poughkeepsie, convicting the defendant as a disorderly person.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The only questions presented requiring our consideration are, first, whether the provisions of section 4 of chapter 261 of the Laws of 1854, authorizing any magistrate in Dutchess county, in liis discretion, to commit a person convicted. before him of being a disorderly person to imprisonment at hard labor for any term not exceeding six months, were repealed by implication by the provisions ■ of the Criminal and Penal Codes; and, second, if not, whether any *510authority is given ,by said statute or Codes to commit a person so convicted to the common jail of said county.
The ajipellant…
2Cited by1 opinion
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