Case Name: The People vs. John Allen
Court: Recorder of New York City
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1822-09
Citations: 1 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 38
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People vs. John Allen.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wheeler's Criminal Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 38–38

Head Matter:
The People vs. John Allen.
Time to plead is due to the prison-no/of
Grand Larceny.
Maxwell, District Attorney,
called on the above case for trial.
Price, for Allen,
refused to plead to the indict- ~ ment on arraignment, and prayed leave for time, until the next day, to prepare a special plea.

Opinion:
The court observed, "it cannot be demanded as matter of right; but on the ap. " plication of respectable counsel, will be given ex gratia:.'' and he took until the next day to prepare his plea.