New York Supreme Court, 1907

People ex rel. Wilson v. Warden of City Prison

People ex rel. Wilson v. Warden of City Prison
New York Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1907 · Ford
56 Misc. 109; 21 N.Y. Crim. 411

Counsel

R. J. Haire, for relator., Robert S. Johnstone, Assistant District Attorney, for respondent.

People ex rel. Wilson v. Warden of City Prison

Opinion of the Court

Ford, J.

If I were permitted to enter the realm of conjecture I might dismiss this writ. I could, and indeed do, guess that the proceedings before the magistrate were en*110tirely regular. But owing to the slovenly manner in which the papers, upon which I am asked to remand the relator, were prepared, and their meaninglessness when scrutinized with that degree of care which should always he employed when the personal liberty of any one is concerned, I must sustain the writ and discharge the prisoner.

Writ sustained.

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