People ex rel Smith v. State Reformatory for Women

Gaynor, J.:

The relator was tried and convicted by a magistrate of the city of Hew York, and sentenced to imprisonment in the above mentioned institution for three years. The written information or complaint against the relator was by a police officer that she was “ loitering on Mott street, that being a public thoroughfare and public place, soliciting and importuning men passing in and along said thoroughfare or place, for the purpose of prostitution, to the great annoyance of the people ”, etc. This was a charge of a misdemeanor defined by section 1458 of the charter of the former city of…