People ex rel. Lesniak v. Mikulski

Freschi, City Magistrate.

The prosecution here charges a violation of section 551 of the Penal Law, which makes it a misdemeanor to send threatening or annoying letters under circumstances and in a manner not amounting to blackmail. The exact language of the statute under consideration is as follows: “A person who, knowing the contents thereof, sends, delivers, or in any manner causes to be sent or received any letter or other writing threatening to do any unlawful injury to the person or property of another, or any person who shall knowingly send or deliver or *126shall make and for the purpose…