People v. Leahy

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered October 1, 1976, after a jury trial, convicting the defendant of the crime of petit larceny, unanimously affirmed. The underlying facts resulting in defendant’s conviction involved the theft of money from fare boxes in a Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority depot. The principal witness for the People, one Thomas Mitchell, had himself engaged in such crimes; he, however, co-operated with the police authorities and at trial testified regarding the defendant’s larcenous activities. The court, in its instruction to the jury on the…