Adams v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Error from the Supreme Court. Adams and one Seymour were indicted in the New York General Sessions for obtaining money, by false pretences, of Suydam, Sage & Co., Commission Merchants in the city of New York.
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Error from the Supreme Court. Adams and one Seymour were indicted in the New York General Sessions for obtaining money, by false pretences, of Suydam, Sage & Co., Commission Merchants in the city of New York. The pretence used to effect the fraud, was, as the indictment allekged, a false receipt signed by Seymour, dated at Chillicothe, Ohio, acknowledging that he (Seymour) had received from Adams a large quantity of pork and lard, irrevocably subject to the order of Suydam, Sage & Co.j which, by the same receipt, he agreed to forward to them in New York, and which they were to receive for…
1Opinion of the Court
No attempt was made upon the argument to controvert the reasoning of the learned Judge who delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court upon the premises assumed by him. It was however insisted, that the authority to punish on account of crimes committed within the jurisdiction of this State, depended upon the right of the State to the obedience of the criminal, and that the authority upon the one hand and the duty upon the other, was founded upon the allegiance permanent or temporary, which the offender owed to the country within which the crime was committed.
It was therefore admitted that a…
2Cited by22 opinions
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- People Ex Rel. Phelps v. Court of Oyer & TerminerNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
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