People v. Daghita

Defendant, a policeman in the city of Ithaca, has been convicted of the crimes of grand larceny in the first degree and of concealing and withholding stolen property. The crimes were separately charged in the same indictment; the property which defendant was accused of concealing and withholding was the same property he was accused of stealing.

The property consisted of a great many separate items belonging to Montgomery Ward & Co., Incorporated. The judgment imposed by the County Court was a sentence of from two to five years imprisonment for each separate crime, the sentences, however, to…