People v. Kurtz
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment entered upon the conviction of the defendant, upon his trial under an indictment charging burglary and grand larceny. Upon the trial of the defendant, the offense was in great part proven .by his confession, made to one Pinkerton and the district attorney.
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Appeal from a judgment entered upon the conviction of the defendant, upon his trial under an indictment charging burglary and grand larceny. Upon the trial of the defendant, the offense was in great part proven .by his confession, made to one Pinkerton and the district attorney. The admissibility of this evidence was contested by the defendant on the ground that the defendant was induced to make the confession by the promise of the district attorney that he should not be prosecuted. Pinkerton was asked by the defendant’s counsel: Q. What, if anything, did you say to him about being a witness…
1Opinion of the Court
Learned, P. J. :
The defendant and another were indicted in February, 1886, for burglary in the third, and grand larceny in the first, degree. The indictment also charged that the defendant had previously been convicted and sentenced in Massachusetts for a certain offense, which, if committed in this State, would have been a felony.
The alleged offense for which defendant was indicted was com mitted February, 1884. He was arrested in Florida in March, 1886, by a special officer of the district attorney of Rensselaer county, and also an employee of the Pinkerton detective agency. At Washington,…
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- People v. BarkerMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
- Cox v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Commonwealth v. PiperMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- People v. WolcottMichigan Supreme Court · 1883
- State v. . VannSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1880
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