People v. Snyder

On an evening in September, 1946, the defendants met in a tavern in Buffalo. Both had been drinking and they continued to do so together. They had known each other for a few months. About midnight Snyder asked Kennedy if he would go with him to a house at Mortimer Street and Broadway, where he had formerly occupied a room, to get a watch which he had left there as well as any other money or valuables which could there be stolen. Kennedy said he would and they set off together. The watch was a “ woman’s gold wrist watch ” which Snyder had purchased for $5, believing it to have been stolen, and…