People v. Bruno
New York Supreme Court
The prisoner had been tried and convicted, in the Court of Sessions of the county of Livingston, under an indictment containing two counts, one for larceny and one for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen.
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The prisoner had been tried and convicted, in the Court of Sessions of the county of Livingston, under an indictment containing two counts, one for larceny and one for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. "An entry in the following words was made on the record, and sent to this court, upon which the advice of this court was asked: “ On this day, to wit, this third Monday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the district attorney moved for judgment against said defendant, whereupon the said defendant, by his counsel, moved in arrest of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, E. Darwin Smith, J.
Before exceptions were given in criminal cases it had become the practice in this State, of Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Sessions and other inferior courts having criminal jurisdiction, to suspend sentence after conviction, when difficult or important questions of law had arisen upon the trial, and ask the advice of the Supreme Court in respect to such questions. The practice was sanctioned by this court, and such advice was given as though applied for in due legal form. (6 Cowen, 556.) In the Revised Statutes of 1830, exceptions were given in…
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