Case Name: PEOPLE v. JOHN V. O'MELIA
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1893-02-15
Citations: 10 N.Y. Crim. 350
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE v. JOHN V. O’MELIA.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Criminal Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 350–351

Head Matter:
Supreme Court-General Term-Third Department.
February 15, 1893.
PEOPLE v. JOHN V. O’MELIA.
(51 St. Rep. 333.)
Disorderly house.
A person, who leases a house to be used as a house where people can have unlawful sexual intercourse, is guilty of keeping a disorderly house.
Appeal from judgment of conviction of the crime of keeping a disorderly house.
Gleason & Dugan, for appellant.
James W. Eaton, district attorney, for respondents.

Opinion:
HERRICK, J.
This is almost entirely a question of fact. The recorder had the witnesses before him, and could iudge of their truthfulness.
Whether he kept the house himself or leased to another to be used as a house where people could have unlawful sexual intercourse, he was equally guilty. People v. Erwin, 4 Denio, 129.
The judgment should be affirmed.
MAYHAM, P. J., and PUTNAM, J., concur.