People v. Mason

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, J.), rendered July 28, 1988, convicting defendant after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 155.30), for which defendant was sentenced as a predicate felony offender to a term of incarceration of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Evidence of defendant’s guilt in this case was established overwhelmingly by the testimony of a plainclothes police officer who observed defendant and an unapprehended accomplice set up and carry out a pickpocket operation against an 85-year-old woman in the Port Authority bus…