People ex rel. Burgess v. Risley
New York Supreme Court
Motion for a mandamus to compel the sheriff of Ulster county to allow the relator a private interview with his counsel.
1Opinion of the CourtWestbrook, J.
The relator, George Burgess, has been committed by a magistrate of the county of Ulster in default *68of bail to await the action of the grand jury upon a charge of burglary. The court of oyer and terminer to be held in and for the county of Ulster, at which the case will be presented for the action of the grand jury, convenes on the nineteenth day of ¡November next.
The sheriff of Ulster county, in whose custody as the keeper of the common jail the relator is, acting in good faith and under advice which he believes to be correct, refuses to his counsel William D. Brinnier a private interview…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Garling v. . Van AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
3Cited by7 opinions
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- Carter v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2000
- State v. OberstSupreme Court of Kansas · 1928
- People ex rel. Moore v. HuntAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1939
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