In Re Markus

There have been presented thirty-three petitions by thirty-three individuals in which the same facts have been pleaded. For convenience sake, only one petition will be noticed and the determination herein expressed will apply in each of the other proceedings.

Markus says that he "was heretofore imprisoned in the county jail at Hackensack, New Jersey," as he is informed and believes, and that such imprisonment was based upon a complaint wherein he was charged with keeping a disorderly house, upon which complaint a warrant was issued, and he was "brought before the first criminal judicial…