PEOPLE EX REL. GRENNAN v. DEVOE


307 N.Y. 691 (1954)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Patrick J. Grennan, Appellant, v. Wesley E. Devoe, Acting Sheriff of Saratoga County, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 4, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Sweeney for appellant.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Paul W. Williams. Peyton H. Moss and Arthur L. Harrow of counsel), for respondent.

Concur: LEWIS, Ch. J., CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE, FULD, FROESSEL and VAN VOORHIS, JJ.


Order affirmed, without costs. (See People ex rel. Shapiro v. Keeper of City Prison, 290 N.Y. 393.) A question under the Federal Constitution was presented and passed upon by this court, viz., whether the relator had been deprived of liberty without due process of law and whether there had been an abridgement of his privileges and immunities as a citizen of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...

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