People v. Shimoni

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Groh, J.), rendered November 18, 1986, convicting him of grand larceny in the second degree (two counts) and issuing a bad check, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that there was insufficient evidence to establish his guilt of larceny by issuing a bad check and larceny by false promise. We disagree.

The record reveals that on October 7, 1985, the complainant, a jeweler, gave to the defendant, who was also a jeweler, 36 carats of diamonds to see if…