People v. Shenk
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Joseph Shenk and another, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the County of New York, Part VI, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 29th day of May, 1916, convicting them of a -misdemeanor in maintaining a public nuisance, to wit, a disorderly house.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The defendants were convicted under the third count of the indictment, which charges them with the crime of maintaining a public nuisance, in that they did unlawfully keep and maintain a certain common, ill-governed house, being the same house mentioned and described in the first count of the indictment, and in that house certain persons, both men and women, of evil name and fame, did frequent and come together at unlawful times, as well in the night as in the day, and then and at all times did there remain “ tippling, drinking, gaming, cursing, swearing, quarreling, rioting,…
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