Penal Code of the State of New York, as Amended To, and Including, 1887 |
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Page 15 - A person offending against any provision of sections forty-one and forty-one-a of this act is a competent witness against another person so offending, and may be compelled to attend and testify upon any trial, hearing, proceeding, or investigation in the same manner as any other person. But the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying.
Page 5 - the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 38 - ... creates, or allows to be created, such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler, or...
Page 148 - ... by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 52 - The first day of the week being by general consent set apart for rest and religious uses, the law prohibits the doing on that day of certain acts hereinafter specified, which are serious interruptions of the repose and religious liberty of the community.
Page 116 - ... than five years, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 135 - ... with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or direct to be made, a full and true entry thereof in the books...
Page 163 - Nothing contained in any provision of this Code applies to an offense committed or other act done, at any time before the day when this Code taikes effect. Such an offense must be punished according to, and such act must be governed by the provisions of law existing when it is done or committed, in the same manner as if this Code had not been passed...
Page 133 - To receive or discount any note or other evidence of debt with the intent to enable any stockholder to withdraw any part of the money paid in by him, or his stock ; or, 5.
Page 59 - ... wherein or adjacent to which any beer, ale, wine or liquor is sold or given away, or being in any such place ; or 5.