New York Criminal Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in All Courts of the State of New York Involving Questions of Criminal Law and Practice with Notes and References, Volume 37W.C. Little & Company, 1920 |
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... offense must so clearly define the acts upon which the penalty is denounced that no ordinary person can fail to understand his duty and the departure therefrom which the law attempts to make criminal . ( Brown v . State , 137 Wis . 543 ...
... offense must so clearly define the acts upon which the penalty is denounced that no ordinary person can fail to understand his duty and the departure therefrom which the law attempts to make criminal . ( Brown v . State , 137 Wis . 543 ...
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... offense alleged . The meat had upon it a tag , which was conceded to be a proper certificate that the meat was kosher in all the particulars required by the rabbinical law , but there also appeared upon this meat and upon another piece ...
... offense alleged . The meat had upon it a tag , which was conceded to be a proper certificate that the meat was kosher in all the particulars required by the rabbinical law , but there also appeared upon this meat and upon another piece ...
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... offense under section 2460 , Penal Code ; would require in addition that she be placed there with the intent that she should " live a life of prostitution " and it is well understood that mere meretricious relations with one man do not ...
... offense under section 2460 , Penal Code ; would require in addition that she be placed there with the intent that she should " live a life of prostitution " and it is well understood that mere meretricious relations with one man do not ...
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... under this section . The corroborating evidence must go to some material element of the offense . ( People v . Draper , 169 App . Div . 479. ) SUPREME COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ― SECOND DEPARTMENT . May 28 PEOPLE V. ROGERS . 19.
... under this section . The corroborating evidence must go to some material element of the offense . ( People v . Draper , 169 App . Div . 479. ) SUPREME COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ― SECOND DEPARTMENT . May 28 PEOPLE V. ROGERS . 19.
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... OFFENSE IS MALUM PROHIBITUM AND INTENT OR KNOWLEDGE IS NOT AN ELEMENT . The offense prescribed is malum prohibitum and is complete if the owner of the vehicle shall " cause or permit " a prohibited rate of speed , and his knowledge or ...
... OFFENSE IS MALUM PROHIBITUM AND INTENT OR KNOWLEDGE IS NOT AN ELEMENT . The offense prescribed is malum prohibitum and is complete if the owner of the vehicle shall " cause or permit " a prohibited rate of speed , and his knowledge or ...
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Page 42 - In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food, under their own distinctive names, and not an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article...
Page 381 - Every person who shall use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned : 14.
Page 203 - A confession of a defendant, whether in the course of judicial proceedings or to a private person, can be given in evidence against him, unless made under the influence of fear produced by threats, or unless made upon a stipulation of the district: attorney, that he shall not be prosecuted therefor ; but is not sufficient to warrant his conviction, without additional proof that the crime charged has been committed.
Page 97 - ... 6. To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration of the laws; Each of them is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 75 - A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as £either] : . 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong.
Page 94 - ... for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to convict him of a crime or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture: but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against...
Page 31 - Cement mortar shall be made of cement and sand in the proportion of one part of cement and not more than three parts of sand, and shall be used immediately after being mixed. The cement and sand are to be measured and thoroughly mixed before adding water.
Page 345 - Denies or aids or incites another to deny to any other person because of race, creed or color, full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any hotel, inn, tavern, restaurant, public conveyance on land or water, theatre or other place of public resort or amusement, Is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
Page 263 - The practice of medicine is defined as follows: A person practices medicine within the meaning of this article, except as hereinafter stated, who holds himself out as being able to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe for any human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition...
Page 33 - To the one class belong those cases in which the conclusions to be drawn by the jury depend upon the existence of facts which are not common knowledge and which are peculiarly within the knowledge of men whose experience or study enables them to speak with authority upon the subject.