People v. Sapienza

Defendant was indicted for the crime of grand larceny. She is alleged to have stolen $20,000 from her bank employer.

On October 25, 1965, while she was an employee in the counting room of the night deposit division of the bank, late in the afternoon it was found that a “ brick ” of $20,000 in bills was missing after the accounts were otherwise proven. An intensive search was made for the money with no success. Police were called. One of the detectives testified that he questioned all the employees of the room where the money was kept and. in the course of questioning defendant, she stated that…