People v. . Cummins
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 15, 1912, which affirmed a judgment rendered at a Criminal Trial Term upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. The facts, so for as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 15, 1912, which affirmed a judgment rendered at a Criminal Trial Term upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. The facts, so for as material, are stated in the opinion. Section 542 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has ordinarily been invoked to sustain convictions where the substantial rights of the defendant have not been invaded upon the trial.. It is equally applicable in favor of a defendant to reverse a conviction…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The events which led to the indictment and conviction of the defendant in this case grew out of the financial embarrassments of the Carnegie Trust Company in the city of New York in the spring of 1910. That institution was then practically under the control of the defendant and his allies in business operations. Some of them were also more or less interested in the affairs of three other banking corporations in New York: The Van Norden Trust Company, the Nineteenth Ward Bank and the Twelfth Ward Bank. A time came when a large sum of money was needed to prevent disaster to…
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