Case ID: ny-st-rep_56/html/0304-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Herrick, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People, Resp’t, v. Allen Barber, App’lt.
    
      (Supreme Court, General Term, Third Department,
    
    
      Filed December, 1893.)
    
    Criminal law—Arrest.
    Where a person is committing an offense under § 448 of the Penal Code, in the presence of a constable, the latter has authority to arrest him for such offense without a warrant.
    Appeal from a judgment of the court of sessions adjudging defendant guilty of assault in the second degree.
    
      B. M. Moore, for app’lt; Fred’k O. Paddock, for resp’t.
   Herrick, J.

It seems to me that the indictment sufficiently sets forth an offense under § 218 of the Penal Code. The evidence shows that the defendant was committing an offense under § 448 of the Penal Code. The person who made the arrest, and whom the defendant assaulted was a constable, and the defendant’s offense was committed in his presence.

Under § 177 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a constable had authority to arrest him for such an offense without a warrant.

The judgment should, therefore, be affirmed. I see no occasion for an opinion.

All concur.