People ex rel. Potter v. Board of Managers

This case comes before me on a writ of habeas corpus to which a demurrer has been interposed. It appears from the petition and the exhibit attached thereto that relator was convicted before a city magistrate in the Magistrate’s Court, second division, first district, in the borough of Richmond, upon a charge of having “ violated the provisions of section 1459 of the Consolidation Act in that she did, with other persons push and jostle passengers on a surface car.” Section 1459 of the Consolidation Act reads as follows: "Whenever it shall appear, on oath of a credible witness before any police…