People v. Rothstein
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis J. Rothstein, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, entered on the 12th day of November, 1903, convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree in obtaining goods under false pretenses.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The property alleged to have been obtained under false pretenses comprised eighteen pieces of cloth known as covert cloth which the defendant obtained by way of purchase from merchants in the city of New York.
The false representation consisted of a representation made by the defendant to the managing partner of the firm that he had an order from a large, well-known and responsible mercantile corporation which he named, for 6,000 cloaks to be made of covert cloth and that, if the firm would accept his order for the cloth, he would assign the bills payable by the mercantile…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. RothsteinNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1903