People ex rel. Warren v. Brady

This is an application for a writ of prohibition absolute, prohibiting the defendants from proceeding with the trial of the relator in the Police Court of Albany. The relator was arrested on the 23d day of December, 1901, under a warrant issued by said police justice on a complaint of the defendant Gibbons, charging the relator with a violation of section 322 of the Penal Code, in maintaining a disorderly house and house of ill fame. This offense is made a misdemeanor by the section last referred to.

The return made by the defendants to the writ herein states-that the said James Warren “…