People ex rel. Short v. Warden of the City Prison
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the People of the State of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term- and entered in the office, of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of February, 1911, sustaining a writ of habeas corpus and discharging the relator from custody.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The relator was charged before a city magistrate, in a veri-, fied written complaint, with the crime of extortion. The . complaint alleged in substance that on July 8, 1910, the relator secured, without consideration, a position for the complainant as a painter with the George A.. Fuller Company, building contractors; that after he had secured such position, and the complainant had entered upon his employment, the relator stated that he would have to give him fifty cents a day from his weekly salary,- and, if he did not do so, he would have him discharged; that, by reason of…
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