Legal Opinion

People v. Iverson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1899PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, Christian Iverson, from a judgment of the County Court of Dutchess county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in :the office of the clerk of Dutchess county on the 27tli day of February, 1899, modifying a judgment of the Recorder’s Court of the city of Poughkeepsie, which' convicted the defendant of the crime of being a disorderly person under subdi-. vision é of section 899 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and affirming said judgment as so modified.

1Opinion of the Court

Woodward, J.:

A careful consideration of the points urged upon this appeal discloses no sufficient reason for reversing the judgment. The appellant was arrested without a warrant, during a fight which occurred in his establishment in the city of Poughkeepsie, and was charged with keeping a house “ for the resort of. prostitutes, drunkards, tip- ■ piers, gamesters or other disorderly persons,” which, under the provisions of section 899 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well *302as of the charter of the city of Poughkeepsie (Laws of 1896,. chap. 425, § 138), constitutes a disorderly person.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People Ex Rel. Comaford v. . DutcherNew York Court of Appeals · 1880

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. People v. GrantNew York Court of Appeals · 1965
  2. People v. Ostrosky, New York County Courts1916
  3. People v. Park, New York County Courts1915
  4. People v. PhillipsNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
  5. People ex rel. Mertig v. JohnstonNew York Supreme Court · 1946

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