Williams v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
The plaintiff in error was convicted, in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the city and county of Hew York, of stealing money. The indictment charged the stealing, from the person of Eliza Denike, of divers bank notes of the different amounts usually issued, and of divers different kinds of gold and silver coins, in such a manner that, if the statement were assumed to be correct, the amount stolen would be several hundred dollars.
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The plaintiff in error was convicted, in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the city and county of Hew York, of stealing money. The indictment charged the stealing, from the person of Eliza Denike, of divers bank notes of the different amounts usually issued, and of divers different kinds of gold and silver coins, in such a manner that, if the statement were assumed to be correct, the amount stolen would be several hundred dollars. On the trial, after not guilty pleaded, it was proved that the prisoner stole from the person of the individual named seven dollars while she was in one…
1Opinion of the CourtDekio, J.
The counsel for the plaintiff in error maintains, that the statutory provision under whiCh this conviction was had is a violation of the clause of the Constitution which declares that “ no local or private bill which may be passed by the legislature shall embrace more than one subject, ahd that shall be embraced in its title.” (Art. 3, § 16,) But let us suppose- an act which is local in many of its provisions, and yet contains an enactment which is neither local nor private, but which relates to every part of the State; and is essentially public in its motives and objects: Would such…
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