People ex rel. Abrams v. Fox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frank W. Fox, warden of the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island, 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 14th day of August, 1902, sustaining a writ of habeas corpus theretofore granted in. behalf of the relator and discharging said relator from custody.
1Opinion of the Court
Laugh lin, J.:
On the 5th day of May, 1902, the relator was duly arraigned and tried before one of the city magistrates on the charge of being a vagrant; he was convicted and sentenced to the workhouse pursuant to the provisions of sections 707 to 710, inclusive, and 712 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 1897, chap. 378, as amd. by Laws of 1901, chap. 466), “for the term of six months, unless sooner discharged by due course of law.” The proceedings were had in conformity with the statute, and the sole ground upon which the relator was discharged and upon which it is sought to sustain…
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