People v. Rankin
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Appeal from a judgment of the City Magistrates’ Court..
1Opinion of the Court
Wadhams, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the City Magistrates’1 Court finding the defendant guilty of being a disorderly person in violation of subdivision 4 of section 899 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which reads as follows: “ The following are disorderly persons: * * * '* 4. Keepers of bawdy houses, or houses for the resort of prostitutes, drunkards, tipplers,, gamesters, habitual criminals, or other disorderly persons.”
This appeal presents the question whether guilty knowledge is an essential element of the offense of being a disorderly person, of which the defendant has been…
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