151 N.Y.S. 547 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1915
The defendant, appellant, a corporation, was convicted in the Court of Special Sessions of the city of New York, in the borough of Brooklyn, of having committed the crime of maintaining a public nuisance in the borough of Brooklyn, at a specified place therein, on February 8, 1914, and for some considerable time prior thereto. This appeal is taken from the judgment of conviction. The Penal Law defines the crime of a public nuisance as follows:
“A ‘public nuisance’ is a crime against the order and economy of. the State, and consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission:
“1. Annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of any considerable number of persons,” etc. (Penal Law, § 1530.)
The acts or omissions charged against the defendant in the information filed in this proceeding, if established by sufficient
The judgment should he affirmed.
Jenks, P. J., Thomas, Stapleton and Putnam, JJ., concurred.
Judgment of conviction of the Court of Special Sessions affirmed.