People v. Forward

Mercure, J.P.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Madison County (DiStefano, J.), rendered September 21, 2006, upon a verdict convicting defendant of two counts of the crime of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree.

After admitting to a police investigator that he stole several ceremonial rifles from a Veterans of Foreign Wars building in the Town of Lenox, Madison County, defendant was charged in an indictment with burglary in the third degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree (five counts), and…