People v. Cunningham

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 1, 1978, upon resentence, convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. Defendant stole a billfold from a shoulder bag being worn by a decoy policeman. At the time of the larceny, the policeman was sitting on a step on a stairway leading to a subway station with his right shoulder against the wall, and with the strap of the shoulder bag around his left shoulder. The shoulder…