People v. Ripley

Freschi, J. (concurring):

The defendants, Ripley and Duff, were charged by separate information filed by the district' attorney of Richmond county with a violation of section 1425, subdivision 3, of the Penal Law, which provides that “ a person who willfully severs from the freehold of another, or of the People of the State, any produce thereof, or anything attached thereto, is guilty of a misdemeanor.”

By stipulation, the defendants were jointly tried.

The charges involved in the informations here arose after the defendants had removed a frame bungalow, in the course of construction, from the…