In re Capshaw

The respondent herein was removed from the office of City Magistrate of the City of New York upon evidence which this court found established that he had, in discharging certain defendants arraigned before him for illegally possessing policy slips, acted in violation of the duties imposed upon him by law. This court also found that in testifying as a witness at the trial of the case of People v. Hines (258 App. Div. 466) respondent herein attempted to obstruct the administration of justice by deceiving and misleading the jury as to the evidence *346presented and the law which should have been…