People v. Reid

This is an appeal from a conviction by the City Court of the City of Oneida, N. Y., sitting as a Court of Special Sessions. The defendant is a member of the sect of Jehovah’s Witnesses, claiming to be an ordained minister of that faith.

*290The alleged offense occurred in the hall of an apartment house occupied by ten families. The accused was engaged in distributing literature, issued by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and playing a phonograph. A few days before this affair he was likewise passing out literature to some of the occupants and playing a phonograph. On the first occasion, Mrs. Cole, the…