Coleman v. . People of the State of N.Y.
New York Court of Appeals
Ebbob to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions in and for the county of Monroe, convicting plaintiff in error of the crime of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen.
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Ebbob to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions in and for the county of Monroe, convicting plaintiff in error of the crime of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. (Reported below, 4 N. Y.- S. C. [T. & C.], 61; 1 Hun, 596.) - The indictment charged, in substance, the stealing of five bars of pig-iron March 3d, 1873, by two boys named, and the receipt thereof by plaintiff in error, with knowledge, etc. The district attorney, in opening the case to the jury, stated that the receiving would he…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Court of General Sessions of Monroe county, of the crime of receiving stolen goods, knowing them, to have been stolen, and from the judgment of the Supreme Court affirming the conviction error is brought to this court. The objection that the prosecution having given evidence tending to prove one offence could not be permitted to prove another under the indictment, and as the foundation for a conviction, is untenable. The district attorney had announced, in his opening address to the jury, that he should seek to prove and ask a conviction for…
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