People ex rel. Thornton v. Becker

A writ of habeas corpus was issued herein upon the petition of James Thornton.

The relator is confined in the Niagara County Jail by virtue of a judgment of conviction of the crime of violation of section 1146 of the Penal Law upon a verdict of a jury on the 2d day of July, 1946, in the County Court of Niagara County.

Relator claims in the petition herein that he was indicted in the January Term, 1946, in the District Court of the United States, Western District of New York, for the crime of harboring an alien prostitute for immoral purposes, and that a duly qualified jury rendered a verdict of…