People v. Riccardi

By leave of a judge of this court, the defendant appeals from an affirmance of a judgment convicting him of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. The People charged that he had fraudulently induced the complainant to transfer to him property of the value of $2,851.72 by color or aid of false representations or pretenses. (See Penal Law, § 1290.) The representations as laid in the indictment included assertions as to the character or quality of certain mining properties of Holmes Western Consolidated Mines, Inc., and assertions as to the extent of holdings of the capital stock of…