Murphy v. Board of Police

“ I agree with the learned counsel for the defendants, in regard to the propositions stated in the first and second points of his brief, to wit: That if the acts done at Madison Square Garden during the walking' match, and *397which constitute the practice of book-making, are violations of the statute of 1877, the persons committing them are guilty of misdemeanors, and that the arrest of such persons would be a legal arrest, and that if, on the contrary, such acts are not violations of the statute of 1877, then an arrest for the doing of such acts would be illegal, and that an injunction does not…