People v. Fiske

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered Hay 17, 1962 after a jury trial, convicting' him of grand larceny in the second degree and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, indictment dismissed and bail exonerated. Defendant was convicted of grand larceny in the second degree under an indictment charging that he appropriated the proceeds of a $484 cheek drawn to his order by making false representations to the maker (Dr. Philip Skalka, the purchaser of a new house being ¡built) “that the funds would be deposited to the account of…