Denis M. Hurley, Corporation Counsel (
Bernice P. Rogers of counsel), for plaintiff.
Morris Siegel for defendant.
of appeal. This principle of law has been long and well established. In the case of
People v. Reed (276 N.Y. 5, 9) the court said: "The People should be entitled to any reasonable doubt a trial judge may have upon the law for, if he makes a mistake on the law, the People have no opportunity or method of reviewing his ruling, as strange as it may seem to us in this enlightened day. The defendant, for a wrong ruling, may always appeal the case for review to a higher court; the People have no such privilege, except as hereinafter stated. The trial justices in criminal cases, therefore, should bear this in mind when ruling upon points of law." The defendant is found guilty of violating section B32-41.0 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York.