People v. Vidal

On this appeal by defendant from a conviction for grand larceny in the first degree, he raises three alleged trial errors during his cross-examination.

Defendant was tried in 1961 for automobile larceny in 1960. He was not sentenced until 1966 because in the interim he had been a fugitive.

Defendant, who had testified that he had never been in the stolen car, was cross-examined, without objection, about" a prior *251conviction, arising out of the theft, for driving the stolen automobile without a license. He was also questioned, over general objections, about acts of prior misconduct, one the…