People v. Powers
New York Supreme Court
The defendant was indicted for a second offence of petit larceny. The indictment contained but one eount. It charged the first conviction to have occurred on the 31st of October, 1848, at a court of special sessions held at Syracuse before Wm., A. Cook, police justice, having full power and authority to hold said court, and to try and convict for such offence.
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The defendant was indicted for a second offence of petit larceny. The indictment contained but one eount. It charged the first conviction to have occurred on the 31st of October, 1848, at a court of special sessions held at Syracuse before Wm., A. Cook, police justice, having full power and authority to hold said court, and to try and convict for such offence. And that the defendant, (who was tried by the name of Amison Powers,) was sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars; and that he paid the same, and was discharged. On the trial, at the Onondaga oyer and terminer, the district attorney…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Gridley, J.
The prisoner was convicted of a second offence of petit larceny at the oyer and terminer in Onondaga county. On the trial a bill of exceptions was taken *464to the ruling of the court, on the admission of certain evidence offered by the district attorney and in the rejection of evidence offered on behalf of the prisoner. As a part of the proof to sustain the indictment the counsel o,f the people offered in evidence a certificate of the conviction of the prisoner, (whose identity was proved by other evidence,) under the name of Amison Powers, of the offence of petit…
2Cited by1 opinion
- The People v. . PowersNew York Court of Appeals · 1851