People v. Cascia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Luigi Cascia, from a judgment of the County Court of Kings county, rendered against him on the 20th day of February, 1919, convicting him of the crimes of robbery in the first degree, grand larceny in the second degree and assault in the second degree, and sentencing him to not more than ten years and six months and not less than five years in State’s prison, and also from an order of said court denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon…
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Appeal by the defendant, Luigi Cascia, from a judgment of the County Court of Kings county, rendered against him on the 20th day of February, 1919, convicting him of the crimes of robbery in the first degree, grand larceny in the second degree and assault in the second degree, and sentencing him to not more than ten years and six months and not less than five years in State’s prison, and also from an order of said court denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, J.:
About eight o’clock on the evening of Sunday, the 24th of November, 1918, three men entered a little grocery store at No. 100 Harrison street, Brooklyn, kept by Pasquale Della Mura and Lucia, his wife, and at the point of a revolver took $150 from the money drawer. This robbery was conclusively proved and is not controverted. The serious question litigated was whether the defendant was concerned in it.
One peculiarity of the case is that Pasquale and Lucia Della Mura deny that the defendant was one of the robbers. Obviously the district attorney knew, when he brought the case on…
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