People v. Gillman

Scott, J.:

The appellant, a lad sixteen years of age, was convicted of the crime of petit larceny in the Court of Special Sessions in the city of Hew York. He was charged with having stolen a shirt waist, the value of which was not proven, from a department store in which he was employed *921The sole evidence against him was testimony of confessions made by him to one Wade, the special officer employed in the department store, and one Stein, a police officer. The appellant denied both the confessions and the commission of the crime. If there was nothing in the case except a question of veracity…