Remsen v. People
New York Supreme Court
ERROR to the Yew York general sessions. The prisoners were indicted for grand larceny, in stealing from the person of George W. Wells, “ promissory notes for the payment of money, being due and unsatisfied, and of the kind known as United States Treasury notes,” of different denominations and values; “ promissory notes for the payment of money; of the kind known as bank notes, being due and unsatisfied,” of different denominations and values; “bank bills of banks to the…
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ERROR to the Yew York general sessions. The prisoners were indicted for grand larceny, in stealing from the person of George W. Wells, “ promissory notes for the payment of money, being due and unsatisfied, and of the kind known as United States Treasury notes,” of different denominations and values; “ promissory notes for the payment of money; of the kind known as bank notes, being due and unsatisfied,” of different denominations and values; “bank bills of banks to the jurors unknown, and of a number and denomination to the jurors unknown, of the value of one thousand dollars ;” due bill's…
1Opinion of the Court
" By the, Court, Cardozo, J.
This case differs, essentially, from that of Johnson v. The People, (4 Benio, 364,) relied on by the prisoners. In that case there was no proof of the existence of the banks, which were foreign ones, which it was claimed had issued the notes; nor any evidence of their genuineness. Had there been any—even that the bills had been passed as genuine—and it had been left to the jury to say, upon that, whether the banks existed, and whether the notes were genuine, it is plain that the judgment would have been sustained. Here the witness testified that the bills stolen “…
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