The People v. . Cruger
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant, Kortright Cruger, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department, affirming a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, by which the defendant was convicted of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years.
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Appeal by defendant, Kortright Cruger, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department, affirming a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, by which the defendant was convicted of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years. In March, 1885, the complainant went to the defendant to see him in reference to disposing of a certain diamond lace pin, the same article with the larceny of which the defendant is charged, and left the pin with the defendant, to be disposed of by him. As to the manner in which the pin…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The conviction is for stealing, on the 10th of March, 1885, a diamoncl pin, the property of one Porteus. It appeared in evidence that the defendant was engaged in the "business of buying and selling jewelry, and of effecting loans upon personal property; that before the time in question there had been dealings between the parties in relation to the pin, but on that day it was in the possession and under the sole control of Porteus, who, as he testified, left it with the .defendant to be sold, but according to the testimony of the defendant, Porteus wanted him to procure a loan upon it, and…
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