Murtagh v. Leibowitz

The petition in this proceeding (brought under Civ. Prac. Act, art. 78), prayed for an order prohibiting respondent, individually and as a County Judge of Kings County presiding as a Magistrate in that county, from continuing to assume jurisdiction over a criminal information filed with *315respondent against petitioner. Petitioner was, at the times mentioned in that information, a public officer of the City of New York, to wit, its Commissioner of Investigation. The lengthy information filed against appellant charges the latter with committing, in Kings County, the misdemeanor of neglect of duty…