New York Court of General Session of the Peace February 15, 1868 (People v. Tinsdale)

Haokett,

Recorder, charged the jury as follows :

Gentlemen of the Jury:—The statute, for an alleged violation of which the accused are at the bar, was intended and enacted for a wise and beneficial purpose; and that it should only recently have been the subject of legislative action, is a matter of reproach.