People v. Daghita

The defendant stands convicted, upon two separate counts, of two separate crimes, the crime of grand larceny in the first degree (Penal Law, §§ 1290, 1294) and the crime of criminally concealing and withholding stolen property (Penal Law, § 1308). There can be no doubt on the record before us that the jury was fully justified in finding defendant guilty of a single continuing grand larceny: the evidence was more than sufficient to establish that he had stolen a considerable quantity of merchandise over a period of time from Montgomery Ward’s Ithaca store and that he had used a large portion…