People v. Lennon

McAvoy, J.:

The defendant is a patrolman in the police department, who after arresting a person of the name of Owen W. Watkins, appeared before the magistrate then sitting in Jefferson Market Court to arraign the prisoner. After the officer presented his evidence, and that of a brother officer, the magistrate dismissed the charge against Watldns and stated that he intended to have Officer *267Lennon placed under arrest on the charge of disorderly conduct which he would try himself a week later in the Essex Market Magistrate’s Court.

The defendant, Patrick Lennon, was tried before the same…