People v. Schindler

Freschi, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of a City Magistrate’s Court of the city of New York, borough of Brooldyn, convicting the appellants of the ofíense of disorderly conduct tending to a breach of the peace in violation of section 722, subdivision 6, of the Penal Law of the State of New York, and sentencing them to imprisonment in the workhouse for a term of five months and twenty-nine days each.

It cannot be denied that the right to a fair trial of an accused, to procure witnesses and to have counsel on his behalf in any trial in any court is guaranteed him by law (State Const, art.…