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...York State, it is no great crime to spit in a subway car or on the street. It is no great crime to wake sleeping citizens with ribald songs, to walk on the grass. According to the State statutes these are only misdemeanors, minor offences which are not felonies. For a misdemeanor, a man may spend at most a year in jail, pay a $500 fine...
...haggard jury said GUILTY after 24 hours of bickering. Justice Arthur Sidney Tompkins gave the maximum penalty. Many were shocked. It appeared that conspiracy to defraud the city, when millions were involved, was simply a misdemeanor. Mr. Connolly was sentenced to a year in jail, a fine of $500. Criminally he had attained no greater stature than a subway spitter...
Perjury should be made a misdemeanor instead of a felony to insure more convictions...
Perjury should be made a misdemeanor instead of a felony to insure more convictions...
...Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket...