Legal Opinion

People v. Hoyt

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 28, 1911PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of New York, from a judgment of the County Court of Chenango county, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 28th day of September, 1910, sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to an indictment for forgery in the first degree.

1Opinion of the Court

Houghton, J.:

The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of the county of Chenango for forgery in the first degree and on arraignment interposed a demurrer alleging various grounds of insufficiency of the indictment, the principal ones of which were that it did not state the unlawful act winch the .defendant did constituting the crime of forgery in the first degree, nor set forth whom he intended to defraud.

The indictment contains two counts. The first alleges that the defendant committed the crime of forgery in the first degree in that he “ with intent to defraud, unlawfully and…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. People v. RyndersNew York Supreme Court · 1834
  2. People v. BadgleyNew York Supreme Court · 1836
  3. People v. Van AlstineMichigan Supreme Court · 1885
  4. People v. . DolanNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
  5. People v. StearnsNew York Supreme Court · 1839

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. State v. SwankOregon Supreme Court · 1921
  2. State v. CrawfordArizona Supreme Court · 1920
  3. People v. Kalbfeld, New York County Courts1924
  4. In Re LoweIdaho Supreme Court · 1931
  5. People v. AbelsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914

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