People v. Griessman

Nott, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment by the city magistrate convicting the defendant of disorderly conduct in that on the 30th day of June, 1914, she used threatening, abusive and'insulting behavior with intent to provoke a breach of the peace and used indecent and insulting language to the complainant.

It appears that the complaining witness, a police officer, had just placed the defendant’s sister under arrest at an early hour of the morning for soliciting; that thereupon the defendant accused him of being drunk and used profane language. The defendant admitted that she called the…