Mack v. . People of the State of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment affirming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, in and for the city and county of Hew York, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of burglary.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment affirming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, in and for the city and county of Hew York, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of burglary. The indictment charged and the proof established the commission of the burglary, at City Island, in the county of Westchester, the stealing of certain property and the bringing of the same by the prisoner into the county of Hew York. There could be no conviction of the crime of burglary, it having been…
1Opinion of the Court
Forger, Ch. J.
The legislature has seen fit to enact that he who commits a burglary and larceny in one county, if he brings the stolen property into another county, may be indicted, tried and convicted for the burglary in the latter county, as if it had been done there. (2 E. S. 727, § 50) It is the same kind of legislation as that which declares, that for an offense committed on the boundary of two counties, or within 500 yards of it, the offender may he indicted and tried in either county. (2 E. S. 727, § 45 ; see, also, id., § 44.) The matter is clearly within the legislative power. The…
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