People v. Klas
New York County Courts
The defendant was tried in a Court of Special Sessions held by a justice of the peace of the town of- Lysander, Onondaga county, New York, for a claimed violation of section 925 of the Penal Law, the crime of defrauding a hotel keeper. He was found guilty of the charge, and a fine was imposed. From such judgment of conviction this appeal is taken.
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, J.
The complainant, Mr. Devendorf, is a hotel keeper in the village of Baldwinsville, and the defendant is a mechanic, who during the time which he boarded with Mr. Devendorf, and since, has been working receiving a salary of substantially twenty-four dollars a week. He boarded with Mr. Devendorf from early in December, 1911, until about the middle of April, 1912, at the agreed price of four dollars and fifty cents a week, and during this time he also ran a bar bill and made payments upon these two bills from time to time. The exact amount of the bar bill does not appear but it was claimed by…
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