People v. Drum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas Drum, from & judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the Peace of the Second Division of the city of Hew York, rendered on the 21st day of February, 1908, convicting the defendant of keeping a disorderly house.
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Appeal by the defendant, Thomas Drum, from & judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the Peace of the Second Division of the city of Hew York, rendered on the 21st day of February, 1908, convicting the defendant of keeping a disorderly house. The defendant was found .guilty under an information filed against, him by the'District Attorney of Kings county for violation of section 322 of the Penal Code in three counts, the first charging him with keeping a “house of ill fame and assignationthe second with keeping a disorderly house, and the third with keeping a house of public resort to…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The defendant is employed to assist in the management of a hotel in the borough of Brooklyn which is licensed under the Liquor Tax Law. The restaurant and dining room will seat 200 *242people at table, and there are 18 bed rooms upstairs. The evidence against the defendant is by two policemen. The first testifies that he came to the hotel in citizen’s clothes with a woman at about 7:30 p. m., registered with her at the desk as John Wise and wife in the presence of the defendant who was in ¡charge, and that they were assigned by him' to bed room 6, to which he conducted them; and that…
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