Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Lichtenstein v. Hodgson

New York Supreme Court

Decided January 24, 1891PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from special term, Monroe county. Application by Isaac Lichtenstein for a writ of habeas corpus to Thomas C. Hodgson, as sheriff. Prom an order dismissing the writ, and remanding him to the custody of the sheriff, relator appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.

The principal questions argued by < minsel for the relator on this appeal are not in any manner presented by the record before us. He was committed to the custody of the sheriff by the police justice of Rochester, pending a hearing and warrant issued by that magistrate, charging him with being a disorderly person, in that he refused to support his family. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus, alleging in his petition that he had been previously arrested and convicted on the same charge, and, having appealed from the judgment of conviction, had been let to bail pending such appeal, which was…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Self v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1945

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