Skinkle v. Murray

On February 6, 1927, George Skinkle, the petitioner for the mandamus order and a member of the police force of the city of Watervliet, was directed to investigate a complaint against James Quinn. Skinkle had no warrant for the arrest of Quinn. It is charged that he brutally assaulted Quinn and wounded his head with a “ billy; ” that he took Quinn to a doctor’s office, where his wounds were cared for, and then to the police station where he was held under arrest until February ninth, when he *303was discharged. Quinn died in the Troy Hospital February fifteenth from septicsemia which resulted from…