State v. Smith

LORING-, Justice.

Edward L. Smith was convicted of attempted grand larceny in the first degree. From an order denying his motion for a new trial this appeal is taken.

February 26, 1934, Smith, giving his name as Burns, and one Abe Ginsberg, representing himself to be Arthur Gellar, an attorney of Denver, Colorado, appeared at the home of the Reverend Alphonse J. Carey, a Catholic priest, in St. Paul. Ginsberg told Father Carey that one Joseph Cochrane of Denver, a former resident of St. Paul, had died and by will had bequeathed to a Reverehd A. J. Carey a certificate of stock in a gold mining…