People ex rel. Hamilton v. Board of Sup'rs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari by the people, on the relation of Albert H. Hamilton, •against the board of supervisors of Jefferson county, to review its proceedings in auditing a claim made by the relator against the county. On the night of April 15, 1807, two women were murdered at or near Sackeft’s Harbor, in the county of Jefferson, under circumstances which surrounded the occurrence with no little mystery.
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Certiorari by the people, on the relation of Albert H. Hamilton, •against the board of supervisors of Jefferson county, to review its proceedings in auditing a claim made by the relator against the county. On the night of April 15, 1807, two women were murdered at or near Sackeft’s Harbor, in the county of Jefferson, under circumstances which surrounded the occurrence with no little mystery. A soldier of the United States army by the name of Haynes, alias Allen, was charged with the commission of the deed, but he protested his innocence, and insisted that the guilty party was the husband of…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
Among certain items which are defined by the statute to be a county charge are "all expenses necessarily incurred by the district attorney in criminal actions or proceedings arising in his county.” Laws 1892, c. 686, § 230, subd. 2. This provision was obviously designed to invest the prosecuting attorney of each county with certain discretionary powers, by the reasonable and .proper exercise of which he might obtain the necessary evidence with which to secure the arrest and conviction of parties charged with a violation of the law. That such a provision is both wise and just will hardly be…
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