Fishbein v. State

This claim for false arrest and imprisonment, challenged by the State as insufficient in law, alleges:

On January 11, 1949, claimant, having pleaded guilty to abandonment in the Bronx County Court, was given a suspended sentence of one to two years in State’s prison, and placed on probation for the period expiring January 11, 1951. On April 17,1950, a bench warrant was issued out of the court for claimant’s arrest for alleged violation of probation and lodged for execution with the probation officer of the court. It was not executed until August 30, 1951, though the probation period had…