Zink v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment afipming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace held in and for the city and county of New York, convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of grand larceny. (Reported below, 16 Hun, 396.) The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment afipming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace held in and for the city and county of New York, convicting the plaintiff in error of the crime of grand larceny. (Reported below, 16 Hun, 396.) The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion. The legal effect of the bill of lading and sending the malt was to vest the title to it in the consignee, and it could not be varied by the evidence of Schelly as to the understanding between him and Zink. (Edw. on Bail, 119, 562; Creery v.…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted for the larceny of 501 sacks of malt, the property of John Schelly ; he was tried and convicted at a court of General Sessions, in and for the city of New York. No evidence was introduced in his behalf, and at the close of the case on the part of the People, his counsel asked the court to direct an acquittal upon the ground, among others, that upon the evidence the prisoner ivas not guilty of the offence charged. The court refused to do so, and the prisoner’s counsel excepted.. The court then submitted the case to the jury, saying: “If you believe that the…
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