People v. Martin

Upon the 20th day of April, 1915, the defendant was convicted in the County Court of King’s county of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, and he was thereafter sentenced to be confined for one year in the New York County Penitentiary. He now, in connection with his appeal from said judgment, applies to me at the Special Term, Part I, for a certificate by a justice of this court that there is in his opinion reasonable doubt whether the judgment of conviction should stand, and he has obtained an order to show cause to that end which contains an intermediate stay of execution.

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