In re Allen

Andrews, G. P., J.

This is a habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of the detention of the relator, George Allen. The return to the writ issued in this case is a commitment by a city magistrate which recites that the relator has been held to answer to the Court of Special Sessions, in this city, upon a charge of violating section 277 of the Penal Code, in that he permitted dancing and *699did dance on Sunday, April 22, 1901, at premises known as Ro. 162 East Fifty-fifth street, city of Rew York, borough of Manhattan, such dancing consisting of waltzes and two-steps, not as an exhibition, on the…