People v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Philip Brown, from a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, rendered on the 15th day of September, 1919, convicting him of the crime of criminally receiving stolen property in the second degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Jaycox, J.:
The evidence in this case failed to support the information. The information was the ordinary information for receiving stolen property knowing the same to have been stolen. The evidence, on the contrary, tended to show that the defendant was a dealer in junk and that he bought metal in the form of ingots without ascertaining by diligent inquiry that the person selling or delivering the same had a legal right so to do, contrary to the provisions of section 1308 of the Penal Law. That it was for the crime last described of which the defendant was convicted, and not the ordinary…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. . SullivanNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- People v. . DumarNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- People v. . RosenthalNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
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