People v. . Freeman
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 13, 1909, which unanimously affirmed a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace' in the county of New York rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, the specific charge being that on November 30, 1904, he obtained the sum of $2,250 from a corporation called Park, Davis & Company by false…
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 13, 1909, which unanimously affirmed a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace' in the county of New York rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, the specific charge being that on November 30, 1904, he obtained the sum of $2,250 from a corporation called Park, Davis & Company by false representations. The indictment contained two counts. The first one alleged the details of grand larceny by means of false…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
Many allegations of error are made by the appellant. ’ Some of these are not well founded, and others do not have as a necessary basis any proper exception taken at the trial. The result is that we should be able to affirm the judgment appealed from except for the unjustifiable methods, savoring too much of pettifoggery, employed by the assistant district attorney who tried the case, for the purpose of producing on the minds of the jury the impression that defendant had been guilty of various? misdeeds when as a matter of fact the evidence did not justify any such inference.
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