People v. Koffroth
Decision Date | 10 January 1957 |
Citation | 2 N.Y.2d 807,140 N.E.2d 742,159 N.Y.S.2d 828 |
Court | New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Parties | , 140 N.E.2d 742 PEOPLE, Respondent, v. Milton William KOFFROTH, Appellant. |
Appeal from the County Court of Genesee County.
Defendant was convicted under an information charging that he outraged public decency and seriously injured the property of another by marking obscene and immoral words and sentences and a drawing on the walls of a booth in the men's lavatory in a theater. The City Court of the City of Batavia entered judgment, and defendant appealed.
The County Court of Genesee County entered a judgment of affirmance.
The defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals, contending that the information was defective because the allegedly indecent words were not recited and because the items of outraged decency were not amplifed by supporting affidavits or by mentioning the identities of the people outraged, and that fact that defendant pleaded guilty was not a bar to review by the Court of Appeals, and that an information, based...
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