Legal Opinion

People v. De Goode

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided October 13, 1922PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, William De Goode, from a judgment of the County Court of the county of Kings, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on or about the 9th day of March, 1921, convicting the defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree.

1Opinion of the Court

Blackmar, P. J.:

The defendant was indicted for grand larceny in falsely and fraudulently representing that the Schnell Realty Company, of *36which he was president, was the owner of certain real property in the borough of Brooklyn and thereby obtaining from the complainant the sum of $3,000 in exchange for an instrument that purported to be a deed of the said company for an undivided three-eighths of the property. The People offered evidence of the representations, and that the record title of the property was in the Winare Holding Company, and rested.

The defendant then established, by the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Hull v. . LittauerNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
  2. Ætna Fire Insurance v. TylerCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1836
  3. Horn v. . KeteltasNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
  4. Epstein v. . GluckinNew York Court of Appeals · 1922
  5. People v. WheelerNew York Court of Appeals · 1902

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Nagaven Realties, Inc. v. BanzhafNew York Supreme Court · 1933
  2. Parlato v. BonaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976
  3. People v. De GoodeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922

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