People v. Barber

Lehman, Ch. J.

The defendant, a member of a religious sect known as “ Jehovah’s Witnesses,” rang the door bell of the house where a police officer of the town of Irondequoit lived, and when the'officer came to the door, the defendant took several books out of a satchel and “ held them out ” towards the police officer. We quote here the officer’s testimony of what then occurred:

“A. Yes, and I said to him what do you want and he said a little donation, and I said I will give you 25 cents for the Bible and he said no, I will sell it to you for 35 cents and I informed him then he was violating the…