People Ex Rel. Trainor v. Baker
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from, order of the General Term of the Superior Court of Buffalo, made May 15, 1882, which affirmed an order of Special Term refusing, upon a hearing on return to a writ of habeas corpus, to discharge the relator and remanding him back to custody. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The relator was tried and convicted of a crime in the Court of Sessions of Genesee county, in January, 1882, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned in the Erie county penitentiary, for the term of one year, and to pay a fine of $500, and to stand committed in the penitentiary until the fine was paid, not exceeding one day’s imprisonment for each dollar of the fine.
In pursuance of this sentence he was taken to the penitentiary and there imprisoned. Afterward in the same month, claiming that he was illegally detained in prison, he applied to a judge of the Buffalo Superior Court for a writ of…
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