The People v. . Lyon
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the defendant, James S. Lyon, from a judgment ,of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fifth department, of October 31, 1884, affirming a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Erie county, of April 6, 1883, Hon. Geokge Barker, presiding, convicting defendant of receiving and converting certain moneys of the city of Buffalo. The facts and the arguments of counsel are fully given in the report of this case at General Term, 2 N. 7. Grim. Hep. 484.
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
The defendant was convicted in the court of Oyer and Terminer of Erie county, under chapter 19 of the Laws of 1875, upon an indictment charging him with having, on September 14, 1875, fraudulently ana feloniously obtained and received from Joseph Bork, then treasurer of the city of Buffalo, the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars of the funds of that city, held by said Bork as such treasurer. The .second count of the indictment charged the defendant with having feloniously and wrongfully obtained said money and converted it to his own use. In both counts the defendant is charged as a principal,…
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