People ex rel. Morrison v. Pollack

The grand jury of the County Court of Erie County, sitting at the December, 1941, term, did on the 19th day of December, 1941, return an indictment charging the relator-appellant herein with having committed the crime of petit larceny on November 27, 1941, at the city of Lackawanna, by stealing the sum of twenty-one dollars and thirty cents in money from the possession of one Rocgoi. Below the relator-appellant applied for a writ of habeas corpus so as to bring about his discharge from the custody in which he has been held under the indictment. The application was made on the ground that the…