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90 A.D. 239

People v. St. Clair

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1904-01-15

Appeal by the _ defendant, Lawrence H. St. Clair, from a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the first division of the city of Hew York in favor of the plaintiff, entered on the 1st day of June, 1903, convicting the defendant of a violation of section 675 of the Penal Code.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently August 1984

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Decided 1904-01-15

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McLaughlin, J. (dissenting):

¶1The rule of law to be applied.to the facts in this case is the one which, in my opinion, should be applied in People v. Weiler (89 App. Div. 611), argued on the same day. Here, it is true, it does not appear, as in the Weiler case, that the defendant was shadowing the complainant for the purpose of locating him, to the end that a subpoena to appear in a criminal proceeding might be served, and it is equally true that.it does here appear that on.one or more occasions the defendant pointed out the complainant and said, “ That is him now,’,’ but such statement was made, so far as appears, in a quiet and orderly manner. It did not, nor did the other acts of the defendant, in my opinion, constitute within the meaning of the statute- disorderly or offensive acts, nor make the defendant guilty of a crime simply because the complainant was annoyed.

¶2The reasons assigned by.me for the reversal of the judgment in the Weiler case are equally applicable to the question here presented, and for such reasons I vote for a reversal of the judgment.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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