People v. Robinson

The defendant-appellant, a security salesman, stands convicted of grand larceny in the first degree. According to the indictment the larceny occurred when_the defendant, without the consent of the owner thereof, appropriated to his own use the sum of $600 which had been intrusted to him as bailee or agent by his client, Miss Lillie Happy. At that time the defendant’s business, which he and his wife formerly conducted as a partnership, had been incorporated under the name of “ R. C. Robinson Securities Corporation,” with its principal office at Ithaca, New York.

For several years prior to 1934,…