People v. Markheim
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis Markheim, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of November, 1913, convicting him of the crime of presenting a false or fraudulent claim to an insurance company, and also from an order denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict for a new trial, and also from an order denying his motion in arrrest of judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Criminal Term of the Supreme Court in the county of New York of having knowingly presented or caused to be presented a false or fraudulent claim for the payment of a loss upon a contract of insurance. (Penal Law, § 1202.) The evidence tended to show that defendant was president of a cor*860poration known as Markheim & Company which carried a considerable stock of goods, insured in forty-three different insurance companies to an aggregate amount of $131,000; that a fire occurred doing considerable damage; that immediately after the…
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