Hogan v. Culkin

Petitioner, District Attorney of New York County, seeks a writ of prohibition precluding the respondent Justice of the Supreme Court from the hearing of the writ of habeas corpus herein and prohibiting respondent Warden from producing the relator before a Justice of the Supreme Court in New York County.

The relator is confined in Green Haven Prison as a parole violator upon a commitment issued June 18, 1936. Relator was sentenced to prison terms aggregating not less than 25 nor more than 40 years. The petition in aid of the writ of habeas corpus alleges that at the time sentence was imposed…