People v. Rudowsky
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Samuel Rudowsky, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the County of New York, entered in the office of the clerk of the said court on the 2d day of August, 1918, convicting him of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, and also from an order entered in said clerk's office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Philbin, J.:
This is an appeal from a conviction of grand larceny in the first degree. It was claimed by the prosecution that the defendant feloniously abstracted the sum of $1,150 from the pocket of the complainant.
The proof was wholly inadequate to establish defendant’s guilt. Neither the complainant nor his wife was able to *484swear that defendant had taken the money. The most that they could say was that the defendant stood next to the complainant in the subway car from One Hundred and Tenth street to One Hundred and Sixteenth street; that the defendant had a grip or valise and pushed…
2Cited by1 opinion
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