State v. Wright
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment for Malicious Mischief, in breaking certain window lights by the defendant, who was a boarder with the prosecuting witness, the occupant of the house in which the window lights were broken. The facts fully appear in the charge of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBoyce, J.
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury: — Sydney Wright, the accused, is charged in this indictment with an offense, commonly known as malicious mischief, which by the courts of this state, as well as by the weight of American authority, is held, in the absence of statute, to be a common-law offense. By a statute in this state, *395all offenses, indictable at common law and not specially provided for by the statute, are deemed misdemeanors.
It is claimed and not controverted that the prosecutrix was, at the time of the alleged commission of the offense charged, tenant and occupant of a certain…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. McCallisterNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1909
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