People v. Goldfarb
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Benjamin Goldfarb, from a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the city of New York, rendered against the defendant on the 3d day of Hovember, 1911, convicting him of the crime of disorderly conduct on a public conveyance, with notice of an intention to bring up for review the determination of said court overruling the defendant’s motion for his discharge upon a plea of former acquittal in bar.
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Appeal by the defendant, Benjamin Goldfarb, from a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the city of New York, rendered against the defendant on the 3d day of Hovember, 1911, convicting him of the crime of disorderly conduct on a public conveyance, with notice of an intention to bring up for review the determination of said court overruling the defendant’s motion for his discharge upon a plea of former acquittal in bar. On the 7th day of May, 1911, the defendant was arrested on an elevated train at the railway station at Third avenue and One Hundred and Sixth street, in the borough of…
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
It is conceded by the learned assistant district attorney that errors were committed on the trial of this case, which require a reversal; but in the view we take of the case we do not deem it necessary to examine the alleged errors with respect to the reception of evidence. Counsel for the defendant insisted on *873the trial that his client had been formerly put in jeopardy on this same charge and he pleaded a former acquittal in bar, and on proof of ,the facts set forth in the statement of facts he contended that by virtue of the provisions of section 6 of article 1 of the…
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