People v. Willard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, James R. Willard, from a judgment of the County Court of Fulton county, rendered against him on the 6th day of December, 1912, convicting him of feloniously receiving stolen property.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
The defendant has been convicted of having received stolen property with knowledge of the fact that same was stolen. Upon this appeal he contends that his conviction was not justified by the evidence. The details of the crime and of the defendant’s participation therein were told by one G-allup, an accomplice. This was denied positively by the defendant, whose story was in part substantiated by a clerk in the defendant’s store. So far as appears the defendant had borne a good reputation, while the reputation of the accomplice was bad. Under our criminal law the jury is not…
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