In re Griffin

The above-named applicant, Michael J. Griffin, was convicted on March 13, 1935, of the crime of attempted grand larceny and conspiracy, a felony, and sentenced to imprisonment in Sing Sing Prison. He was thereafter disbarred. (Matter of Griffin, 244 App. Div. 537.) On July 3,1935, his conviction was reversed by the Appellate Division, Second Department (People v. Griffin, 245 App. Div. 838), and a new trial was ordered, on authority of People v. Ferguson (245 App. Div. 837), upon the ground of error in the charge of the trial justice and because, as stated in the court’s opinion in the…