Legal Opinion
People v. Johnson
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 7, 1930PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
Defendant was arrested on April 6, 1929, on a charge of vagrancy under Code of Criminal Procedure, section 887, subdivision 4 (prostitution), tried in the Recorder’s Court of the city of Newburgh, found guilty and sentenced under Code of Criminal Procedure, section 891-a, for an indeterminate period, not to exceed three years, in the New York State Reformatory at Bedford.
Section 891-a reads as follows: “ Any person convicted in a city of a violation of subdivision four of section eight hundred and eighty-seven of the code of criminal procedure, shall be committed by the court or judge to any…
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