People v. . Neff
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered November 16, 1907, which affirmed a judgment rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree because of his acts, as county auditor of Erie county, in certifying and causing payment October 1, 1901, of a warrant for the sum of $7,500 to the order of one Conover, a contractor, when -nothing was due to him.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered November 16, 1907, which affirmed a judgment rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree because of his acts, as county auditor of Erie county, in certifying and causing payment October 1, 1901, of a warrant for the sum of $7,500 to the order of one Conover, a contractor, when -nothing was due to him. The transaction in question sprang out of proceedings by the county to acquire lands occupied by an old cemetery in the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
On evidence fully establishing the principal facts above stated, and many others of a minor, but, considered together, of a very illuminating character, the appellant has been convicted of the crime of grand larceny. The crime of which he was thus convicted consisted in corruptly countersigning as county auditor of Erie county, and thus certifying to the correctness of, a purported county warrant for $7,500, payable to one Conover on his contract with the county, and whereby piayment of that amount was procured from the county treasurer, when, as a matter of fact, Conover had already been…
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