People v. . Baker
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant, Lorenzo Balcer, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the Third Department of December 27, 1883, affirming a judgment of Court of Sessions of Bensselaer county, of December 15, 1881, Hon. James Forsyth, County Judge, presiding, convicting defendant of obtaining money by false pretenses, upon an indictment found February 18, 1880. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal by defendant, Lorenzo Balcer, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the Third Department of December 27, 1883, affirming a judgment of Court of Sessions of Bensselaer county, of December 15, 1881, Hon. James Forsyth, County Judge, presiding, convicting defendant of obtaining money by false pretenses, upon an indictment found February 18, 1880. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. It was stipulated by the prosecution and defendant that all proceedings on the appeal should be governed by the Code of Criminal Procedure. I. No false pretense, as…
1Dissent
Miller, J.—[Dissenting.]
The defendant was tried and convicted on March 30, 1876, for obtaining the sum of $575 from one W. H. Meeker by false pretenses. The indictment charged that the defendant, on the day named, represented that he had previously bought for the said Meeker one hundred shares of the capital stock of the Hew York Central and Hudson Biver Bailroad Company, and that he then and there held the said stock for the benefit of the said Meeker; that the stock had been purchased on a margin, by paying a part of the purchase price; and that the defendant still had it, to be delivered…
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- Therasson v. . People of the State of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1880