People v. Stock
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
' Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 18th day of December, 1897, directing the sheriff of the county of Dutchess to discharge the defendant from his custody.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The defendant, Stock, was convicted in the County Court of Dutchess county on December 13, 1897, under section 34 of the Liquor Tax Law (Laws of 1896, chap. 112), of selling liquor without having obtained a liquor tax certificate, and was sentenced to pay a fine of- $300, and in default- of payment, to stand committed to the county jail for a term not to exceed one day for each dollar of the fine. On December eighteenth he was discharged under a writ of habeas corpus, the order being based upon the theory that the statute did not authorize imprisonment for non-payment of the…
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