People v. Glynn
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of general sessions, New York county. Indictment against William Glynn for robbery in the first degree. Pen.. Code N. 1!. § 224, provides that “robbery is the unlawful taking of personal property from the person, or in the presence of another, against his will, by means of force or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future, to his person, or property, ” etc. Verdict of guilty, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, P. J.
The evidence in this case shows that one Hiram Spring-stead was in October, about the 17th, 1888, the captain of a trading schooner, which was lying at the foot of One Hundred and Ninth street, East river, in, this city. At midnight he, being in his cabin, heard a noise on deck. The-cabin doors had been been fastened with lashings on the inside. The captain shoved the door, but could not get out because of obstructions from the outside. A knife had been stuck through, and the inside lashings cut. The-captain then blew out the light,«*nrt went through the hold, and out on deck through the…
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