People v. Garrahan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Peter Garrahan, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city of Hew York, rendered on the 31st day of July, 1895, convicting him of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams., J.:
The indictment charged the defendant and one Parodi with having, on the loth of December, 1894, at the city óf New York, feloniously obtained from one Giallorenzo thirty ■ dollars by means of false and fraudulent representations, to wit: That a corporation, called “ Maryland Progressive Improvement Company,” of which the defendant was president, had' been organized under- the laws of Maryland¡that the corporation. owned 40,000 acres of land on the shores-of-Chesapeake bay and Patuxent river, county of St, Marys, '. Maryland; that the Capital stock of said corporation had been…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mayer v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
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- Dittman v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1908