Defendant moves to have a charge, now pending against her in the Court of Special Sessions, prosecuted by indictment (N. Y. City Crim. Cts. Act, § 31, subd. 1, par. [c]). In May, 1949, defendant displayed in the window of a bookshop, which she owns in Greenwich Village, an effigy of a female torso, of a type usually found in a dressmaker's shop, upon which was painted the face of a man purporting to represent the devil. The figure was...
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