People v. . Marrin
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 10, 1911, affirming a judgment of the Kings County Court rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of forgery in the first degree. •On the 3d day of May, 1895, the defendant was indicted for the crime of forgery in the first degree, in that on the 9 th of November, 1893, in his capacity as commissioner of deeds, he willfully, falsely and…
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 10, 1911, affirming a judgment of the Kings County Court rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of forgery in the first degree. •On the 3d day of May, 1895, the defendant was indicted for the crime of forgery in the first degree, in that on the 9 th of November, 1893, in his capacity as commissioner of deeds, he willfully, falsely and feloniously certified that a mortgage “purporting to have been made and executed by one James Cahill to one Caroline…
1Opinion of the Court
Vann, J.:
Upon the charge that the defendant, as a commissioner of deeds, “ wilfully certified falsely ” that the mortgage in question was duly acknowledged before 'him, a serious difference of opinion has arisen in regard to the admission of certain evidence given in support of the accusation. The circumstances under which that evidence was received were as follows: The defendant, a practicing lawyer in the city of Brooklyn, had as a client an old lady named Caroline Biarry, a resident of that city, who on or about the third of Eovember, 1893, gave him $4,000 to invest for her. In a short…
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