People v. Coleman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jones, J.

It was not error for the trial court to allow the prosecutor to impeach defendant’s credibility as a witness by use of pamphlets the publication of which was attributable to defendant and which advocated the evasion of all sales taxes and the cheating of the telephone company.

*272Defendant appeals from a conviction, on a jury verdict, of the misdemeanor of criminal possession of stolen property (Penal Law, § 165.50). The conviction arose from defendant’s alleged possession of a recently stolen Hobart generator found coupled to an antique railway car owned and in the…