People v. Ehrlich
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Adolph Ehrlich, .from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions in and for the county of New York, rendered against him on the 23d day of October, 1918, convicting him of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
Defendant was indicted on two counts. The first count is in the common-law form for stealing diamonds and the second is for having feloniously appropriated them to his own use while bailee thereof.
The testimony given in behalf of the People tended to show and would have warranted the jury in finding that the diamonds were delivered to the defendant by David Saks & Co., Inc., the owner thereof, on the 19th of May, 1917, to be polished, and on the express understanding and agreement that when polished by him they were to be returned to the owner and that he might then exercise a…
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