People ex rel. Eisen v. Flynn

These are writs of habeas corpus and certiorari to review the commitment by a city magistrate of one Fanny Eisen to the city prison, thence to be transferred to the workhouse. The rule is well settled that, upon these writs, this court will not review the conviction by a magistrate, where he had jurisdiction of the charge and authority to impose the sentence. People ex-rel. Manning v. Hagan, 34 Misc. Rep. 24. The only question, therefore, for me to determine here is whether the charge constituted an offense, punishable in the manner above stated. The *91magistrate found the relator guilty of…