In re the Removal of Deuel from the Office of Justice of the Court of Special Sessions

Ingraham, J.:

Charges against the respondent were submitted to this court upon the petition of William Travers Jerome, James W. Osborne and Edward M. Shepard, attorneys and counselors at law, one of the petitioners being the district attorney of New York county and the other petitioners being counsel for the defendant in a criminal action brought in the Supreme Court, in which the respondent appeared as a witness, and the charges were based upon the testimony of the respondent in that action. The petition alleged that the respondent is a justice of the Court of Special Sessions of the city of…