People v. Sumner

The real question involved in “this appeal relates to the sufficiency of the proof to sustain the indictment. The appellant was convicted of the crime of grand larceny in-the first degree, upon an indictment containing two counts. On the trial the second count was withdrawn, and the case then stood upon one which charged a larceny in these words:

“ That said Perrin H. Sumner, late of the city and county of New York aforesaid, on the 16th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, at the city and county aforesaid, with force and arms, the sum of one thousand…