People Ex Rel. Heck v. New York Catholic Protectory
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the defendant, the New York Catholic Protectory,., from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the. * first department, of May, 1885, reversing an order of the Special Term which discharged John Yan Heck, the child of the relator,.. from the custody of defendant The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
A police justice of the city of New York, on the - 5th day of November, 1884, committed John Yan Heck, a boy of the age of nine years, to the Catholic Protectory for begging in the streets, in violation, as the commitment asserted, of the Consolidation Act of 1882, of the Penal Code and of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Under which of these acts the magistrate proceeded he did not at all determine, and we have no means of knowing. The commitment directed that the child should be and remain under the guardianship of the Protectory “ until therefrom discharged in manner prescribed by law.”…
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