People v. Angus

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County, rendered May 18, 1979, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree. As a result of various incidents which allegedly occurred during the months of December, 1977 through August, 1978, whereby defendant extorted approximately $70,000 from one Harold Casson by threatening to expose him to his family and the police as having had sexual intercourse with defendant’s infant daughter and by further threatening to tell Casson’s family and the police that Casson had fathered the infant child in…