People v. Teplitz

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction on four counts of larceny after a jury trial. The counts in the indictment charge violation of sections 1290 and 1294 of the Penal Law on the theory that the defendant took the complainants’ property with the intent to deprive them of the said property. The record establishes a claim to title of the property by the defendant. The defendant’s claim to title is *892evidenced by a chattel mortgage given by the complainants to a bank, which mortgage went into default, and thereafter with the complainants’ consent was assigned to the defendant, and…