People v. Friedland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Abraham S. Friedland, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, convicting him of- the crime of receiving stolen goods, rendered against him upon the verdict of a jury on the 28th day of August, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
While there was direct evidence against the defendant of many of the facts necessary to convict of the crime of which he stood accused, yet there was no direct evidence of the" guilty knowledge with which he received the goods and which was an essential ele^ ment of the crime. That fact was sought to be proved by several circumstances from which it was claimed that the jury must infer that he received the goods knowing that they had been stolen.' To these circumstances the defendant interposed his own denial of the *333guilty knowledge; some slight explanation of the circumstances and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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