People Ex Rel. Phelps v. Court of Oyer & Terminer
New York Court of Appeals
Ebboe to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, to review an order made March 1, 1880, affirming a conviction of Henry W. Genet, .in the court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Hew York, of the crime of obtaining a signature to a written instrument by means of false pretenses.
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Ebboe to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, to review an order made March 1, 1880, affirming a conviction of Henry W. Genet, .in the court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Hew York, of the crime of obtaining a signature to a written instrument by means of false pretenses. The coui’t of Oyer and Terminer suspended sentence upon the conviction, and the case was brought before the General Term of the Supreme Court by certiorari issued in pursuance of the statute, on petition of the district attorney. The substance of the indictment and the…
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The writ of error in this case brings up for review the proceedings upon the trial of Henry W. Genet, charged with obtaining by false pretenses the signature of the mayor of the city of Hew York to a warrant, drawn on the chamberlain, and subsequently paid to the accused. The false pretense alleged in the indictment, and sought to be proved on the trial, consisted of a fraudulent bill, made out in behalf of one Davidson, and sent on its way through the hands of the city officials until it received the final signature of the mayor, and became thereby the means of obtaining the money. It is…
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