People v. Whiteman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Alonzo J. Whiteman, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, entered on the 3d day of April, 1901, convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree, and also from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial and from an order denying his motion in arrest of judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
On the 15th day of November, 1900, the defendant was presented with a bill for thirty-five dollars and forty-five cents for board and *92•lodging at the Hotel Navarre, where he had previously registered under the name of John D. Wilson. He stepped up to the cashier’s window and handed the bill to the cashier, together with a check for one hundred dollars, purporting to have been drawn by Arthur Dolan, .Jr., on the Gerard Trust Company of Philadelphia,, dated that day and payable to the order of John D. Wilson and só indorsed. • He made no express representation and was asked no…
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