People v. . Toland
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 25, 1915, which reversed a judgment of the Franklin County Court, rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of burglary in the third degree, and granted a new trial. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. ■ The acts proven against defendant constituted burglary in the third degree.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 25, 1915, which reversed a judgment of the Franklin County Court, rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of burglary in the third degree, and granted a new trial. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. ■ The acts proven against defendant constituted burglary in the third degree. (Penal Law, § 404; Rosenthal v. American Bonding Co., 143 App. Div. 143; People v. Gartland, 30 App. Div. 534; McCourt v. People, 64 N. Y. 583; State v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.:
The defendant was convicted under the second subdivision of section 404 of the Penal Law, which provides that a person who being in a building commits a crime therein and breaks out of the same is guilty of burglary in the third degree.
A party of three young men including the defendant entered a barn through an open doorway for the purpose of killing a heifer therein and stealing the meat. After they entered, one of them closed the door of the entrance through which they had come and fastened it with a hook or strap so that it remained closed sufficiently to prevent…
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