People ex rel. Bullock v. Warden of the City Prison

The relator is before the court on a writ of habeas corpus, to ascertain the cause of his imprisonment. The warden makes return that he holds the relator under a commitment of the county judge of Kings county, made at a term of the County Court, on October 16, 1914. It appears that on October 15, 1914, the grand jury of the county of Kings returned an indictment against the relator, charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree. The relator upon arraignment refused to plead to the indictment thus returned, and thereupon a plea of not guilty was entered for him by order of the…