People ex rel. Hertz v. Warden of the City Prison

The relator was arraigned before a city magistrate charged with the crime of maintaining a disorderly house. The examination of the relator under this charge was at her request adjourned to February 21,1912, and she was admitted to bail in the sum of $2,500. Thereafter, on *940February twenty-first, the relator was surrendered by her surety, and was in the custody of the warden of the city prison. Whereupon she sued out a writ of habeas corpus before a justice of the Supreme Court, claiming her discharge upon the ground that the complaint upon which she was arraigned before the magistrate did not…