Brooks v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, to review judgment affirming conviction of plaintiff in error of the crime of robbery in the first degree. The plaintiff in error, together with one John Williamson, was convicted of robbery in the first degree, for taking certain articles of clothing in the presence of Margaret Purcell, against her will, and by putting her in fear of immediate injury.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, to review judgment affirming conviction of plaintiff in error of the crime of robbery in the first degree. The plaintiff in error, together with one John Williamson, was convicted of robbery in the first degree, for taking certain articles of clothing in the presence of Margaret Purcell, against her will, and by putting her in fear of immediate injury. There were two counts in the indictment, one charging the goods to be the property of Margaret, the other that it was the property of John Purcell, her father.…
1Opinion of the CourtPeckham, J.
The prisoner was indicted for robbery in the first degree, in feloniously taking property of complainant’s daughter from her person by violence. The second count charged it to be the property of her father. The testimony showed that the girl’s parents lived on the third floor of a house, and upon this occasion left the house in the girl’s sole charge, and in their absence this robbery was committed by putting this girl in bodily fear.
Under the facts disclosed, the father, and not the mother, was the owner, though the things had been purchased with his money for the mother. (Crane v. Williams…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The People v. . BennettNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
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