People v. . Gibson
New York Court of Appeals
Apeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 18, 1915, which affirmed a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in the county of New York rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Apeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 18, 1915, which affirmed a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in the county of New York rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The indictment does not state facts constituting a crime, and hence defendant’s motion for a dismissal or in arrest of judgment should have been granted. (Tompkins v. Fonda G. L. Co., 188 N. Y. 261; People v. Fish,…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.:
The indictment is good. It charges that the defendant, acting as executor of the last will and testament of Ruzena Menschik Szabo, deceased, and having in his possession certain moneys belonging to her estate, feloniously withheld the same, and appropriated the same to his own use. (Penal Law, § 1290, subd. 2.) This is sufficient.
Some errors in the admission of evidence were committed upon the trial, but -as they were technical, and did not affect the substantial rights of the defendant, they ‘must be disregarded. (Code Crim. Pro. § 542.) The papers upon which the…
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