People v. Emerson

—Casey, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of St. Lawrence County (Intemann, Jr., J.), rendered May 22, 1985, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the third degree.

On September 11, 1984, defendant and Geoffrey Cary accompanied Thomas Williams, admitted to be an intellectually slow person whom they had known for four or five years, to the St. Lawrence National Bank in the Town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County. There Williams withdrew $200 from his account and gave it to Cary and defendant on Cary’s promise that he needed it and would use it to visit his…