Case ID: misc_13/html/0408-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Garretson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People, Respondents, v. Henry Daufkirch, Appellant.
    (Queens County Court of Sessions
    June, 1895.)
    Where the police justice has authority to try summary proceedings only ' as a Court of Special Sessions, it is error to refuse to allow the defendant a trial by jury, if demanded by him.
    Appeal from judgment entered upon a conviction by the police justice of LTewtown..
    
      Clarence Edma/rds, for appellant.
    
      Daniel Noble, District Attorney, for the People.
   Garretson, J.

Under the authority of The Matter of the Application of Frederick Erbe for a Writ of Prohibition against William J. Monteverde, Police Justice, decided by Bartlett, J., at Kings County Special Term, October 31, 1894 {ante, p. 404), the police justice erred in refusing to allow the defendant a trial by jury, and the judgment upon conviction appealed from should be reversed.

Judgment reversed.