Case ID: ny_277/html/0615-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. James Fanti, Respondent.
    Argued January 24, 1938;
    decided March 8, 1938.
    
      
      John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney-General (.Maurice H. Matskin, Joseph A. McLaughlin and Abraham H. Brodsky of counsel), for appellant.
    
      C. Joseph Danahy for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: Crane, Ch. J., Lehman, O’Brien, Loughran and Rippey, JJ. Talcing no part: Hubbs, J. Finch, J., dissents in the following memorandum:

I dissent and vote to reverse. To construe the statute thus narrowly is unnecessarily to limit the reasonable enforcement of a provision of the criminal law enacted for the public welfare.