People v. Portner

The libel of accusation underlying this prosecution was laid in four counts, two for alleged acts of grand larceny in the first degree, and two for alleged acts of obtaining credit by the use of a'false statement.

The attainder by verdict rendered on December 16, 1960, before me as the Trial Judge, was founded on the two larceny counts. The trial had lasted three weeks, and, at the end, had become productive of three volumes of testimony consisting of more than 1,300 pages.

On the day of the addiction, January 27, 1961, I sentenced defendant, as a second felony offender, to State prison for a…