“The next case called was No. 6, on the preferred calendar, which counsel said properly belonged to the motion calendar. It was an appeal from an order dismissing a writ of habeaus corpus in the case of the people vs. Willard Van Houter, applt. The appellant was convicted in Syracuse of keeping a disorderly house. The appeal was based upon the claim that the sentence to the Onondaga County Penitentiary was in violation of the statute which provides that the sentence should have been imprisonment in the county jail.”

“General Term Cases,” The Times-Union [Rochester, New York], March 27, 1884, page 2