Cowley v. . People of the State of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment entered upon an order made June 11, 1880, affirming a judgment entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of a misdemeanor. (Reported below, 21 Hun, 415.) The particular offense charged and the material facts appear in the opinion.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment entered upon an order made June 11, 1880, affirming a judgment entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of a misdemeanor. (Reported below, 21 Hun, 415.) The particular offense charged and the material facts appear in the opinion. As “the active manager and representative ” of the corporation which had the care and custody of the boy, the plaintiff in error did not come within the meaning of the act under which he was indicted. (Ferrett v. Atwill, 1 Blatch. 151; U. S. v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Folger, Ch. J.
An act of the legislature was passed in 1876, entitled “An act to prevent and punish wrongs to children.” (See Laws of 1876, chap. 122, p. 95.) It enacts that whoever, having the care or custody of any child, shall wilfully cause or permit the life of it to be endangered, or the health of it to be injured; or it to be placed in such a situation that its life may be endangered or its health be likely to be injured, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Id., § 4, p. 96.)
The plaintiff in error was indicted under this statute. We have to do with but two of the counts in the indictment,…
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