Karelas v. Baldwin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtCarswell, J.
The defendant Baldwin is a justice of the peace in the town of Yorktown, Westchester county. The plaintiff Karelas was, on July 30, 1927, arraigned before the defendant justice on a complaint by the wife of Karelas involving a charge of assault in the third degree. In the course of the arraignment the defendant justice said of the plaintiff, who conducted a grocery store in the village of Lake Mohegan: “ You are a liar. You are only a paper citizen. I have been in Greece and I know what the Greeks are like. You are a disgrace to the community and should be run out of the whole country.”
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