PEOPLE EX REL. STOCK v. TERRENCE


11 N.Y.2d 362 (1962)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edward Stock, Appellant, v. Christopher F. Terrence, as Director of Rochester State Hospital, Respondent. (No. 1.) The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edward Stock, Appellant, v. Christopher F. Terrence, as Director of Rochester State Hospital, Respondent. (No. 2.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vito J. Cassan for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Joseph J. Rose of counsel), for respondent.

Judges DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur.


Chief Judge DESMOND.

These are two habeas corpus proceedings, heard separately and dismissed after the hearings by two Special Term orders, both of which were unanimously affirmed by the Appellate Division on the same day. The appeal here is taken as of right from both orders on the assumption that a constitutional question is involved (Civ. Prac. Act, § 588, subd. 1, par. [a]). We may treat relator's two...

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