People ex rel. Klesitz v. Mills

On a writ of habeas corpus, the relator herein, Stephen Klesitz, husband of Theresa Klesitz, who is forty-five years old and the mother of four children, challenges her commitment by a city magistrate to the Creedmoor State hospital. The record before me discloses that she was charged in the Magistrate’s Court of the City of New York, Borough of Queens, with the offense of disorderly conduct (Penal Law, § 722, subd. 2), for “making false and malicious remarks” to the complainant, one Ada Meyer. On February 19, 1942, she was committed by the magistrate to Bellevue hospital for mental…