People v. Williams

At the November, 1930, term of the Supreme Court the Otsego county grand jury presented four indictments against Martin V. B. Williams, this defendant, charging him with grand larceny in the first degree by way of certain alleged false pretenses whereby in the early part of the year 1929, as is charged, he intentionally defrauded the complainants of their property by inducing them to invest in the shares of a certain now defunct corporation. Such indictments were sent down to this court for disposition and pleas of not guilty entered by the defendant. The district attorney moved for trial of…