McCarney v. . People of the State of N.Y.
New York Court of Appeals
Errob to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review judgment entered upon an order made October Y, 18Y9, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions, in and for the county of Erie, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff of the crime of grand larceny.
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Errob to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, to review judgment entered upon an order made October Y, 18Y9, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions, in and for the county of Erie, entered upon a verdict convicting the plaintiff of the crime of grand larceny. The indictment charged the plaintiff in error with stealing twelve barrels of whisky, which were averred to be the property of the “ Farmers and Mechanics’ National Bank of Buffalo, then and" there being a body corporate organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New…
1Opinion of the Court
Folger, Ch. J.
The averment in the indictment was that the property stolen was owned by a body corporate. It named the corporation by its true corporate name. It might have stopped there; for all that is needed in an averment of ownership in a corporation is to state the fact of ownership in a corporate body, and to give the name of the corporate owner correctly. The indictment went on to aver that it was a corporate body organized and existing under the laws of the State of Hew York. On the trial, the people proved by documentary evidence the due organization and existence of the corporation…
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