People v. Ostrosky
New York County Courts
Appeal from a judgment of Walter R. Jones, a justice of the peace, sitting as a Court of Special Sessions, town of Hempstead, Nassau county, N. Y., convicting the defendant of - petit larceny and sentencing him to six months’ imprisonment in the New York County Penitentiary.
1Opinion of the Court
Niemann, J.:
On January 5, 1916, about five o-clock p. m., William it. Meyer, the complaining witness, locked up his chickens in the coop, and closed and locked the door of the chicken yard. About nine o’clock that evening a noise was heard coming from the chicken yard. Two young ladies who were in the house opened a window and looked down in the chicken yard and saw a man going out of the chicken yard, over the fence. A man named Seel also looked out of the window and these persons saw the man and identified him as the defendant. The complainant ran out of the house into the chicken yard and…
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