Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Irwin Slater and Bess Bernard, Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1953-01-15
Citations: 304 N.Y. 896
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Irwin Slater and Bess Bernard, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 304
Pages: 896–898

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Irwin Slater and Bess Bernard, Appellants.
Argued December 4, 1952;
decided January 15, 1953.
Henry Epstein, Harold Wolfram and Joshua B. Bchoenberger for Irwin Slater, appellant.
Michael Redder for Bess Bernard, appellant.
Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (Charles W. Manning and Richard G. Denser of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed. Questions under the Federal Constitution were presented and necessarily passed upon, as follows: Both appellants contended that the statutes under which they were convicted (Social Welfare Law, § 371, 374, 389; Penal Law, § 487-a) are invalid in that they violate on their face, and as construed and as applied by the trial court, the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Court of Appeals held that the statutes aforesaid do not violate the due process clause aforesaid. No opinion.
Concur: Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Dye, Fttld and Froessel, JJ.