McCord v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
- Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first department to review judgment, affirming judgment of the Court of General Sessions in and for the county of Hew York, convicting the plaintiff in error upon an indictment for false pretences.
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- Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first department to review judgment, affirming judgment of the Court of General Sessions in and for the county of Hew York, convicting the plaintiff in error upon an indictment for false pretences. The plaintiff in error, Henry McCord, was tried and convicted in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, in and for the county of Hew York, at the June term, 1870, upon ■.an indictment charging in substance, that with intent to cheat and defraud one Charles C. Miller, he falsely and fraudulently represented: “ That he, the said Henry…
1Per curiam
If the prosecutor parted with his property upon the representations set forth in the indictment, it must have been for some unlawful purpose, a purpose not warranted by law. There was no legitimate purpose to be attained, by delivering the goods to the accused, upon the statements made and alleged as an inducement to the act. What action by the plaintiff in error was promised or expected in return for the property given, is not disclosed. But whatever it was, it was necessarily inconsistent with his duties as an officer, having a criminal warrant for the arrest of the prosecution, which was…
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