People v. Flechter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Victor' S. Fleckter, from a judgment-of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, rendered on the. 22d day of May, Í896,. upon the verdict of a jury, convicting him of the crime of grand larceny in the'first degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The defendant was tried in the Court of General Sessions of the-Peace on an indictment containing two counts : Firsl, for the lar*201ceny of a violin ; second, for criminally receiving such violin knowing it to have been stolen. Near the close of a protracted trial, the record of which, consisting of some 650 printed pages, is now before us, the prosecution was required to elect upon which of the two-counts it would rely, and thereupon it determined to abandon the first and go to the jury upon the second. A verdict of guilty was rendered, and from the judgment entered thereon the…
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