People v. Krauss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Joseph Krauss, from a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, rendered on the 17th day of January, 1918, convicting him of the crime of petit larceny. On January 25, 1918, sentence was suspended and the defendant placed on probation.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The defendant, a boy of seventeen years of age, was in the employ of Stern Brothers, a department store in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York. He was charged with the larceny of a vanity box alleged to be of the value of one dollar. The entire evidence given in the case related entirely to a confession alleged to have been made by the defendant and consisted of the testimony of Eugene Orth, who was a store detective employed by Stern Brothers. At the conclusion of the People’s case the defendant’s counsel moved to dismiss. Upon the denial of the motion the defendant rested…
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