People v. . Elliott
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the people from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fifth Department, of April 21, 1887, reversing a conviction of Joseph Elliott, the defendant, by the Court of Sessions of the County of Monroe, of forgery in the second degree charged as a second offense. The facts are given in the report of the case at the General Term, 5 N. Y. Crim. Rep. 204.
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The defendant was idicted for the crime of forgery in the second degree, charged as<a second offense, in uttering a forged draft for $3,900 purporting to be ■drawn by the Montreal Bank upon the National Bank of Republic of New York. He was convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison at Auburn for the term of fifteen years. The principal evidence against him at the trial was that of an accomplice, and it is claimed on his behalf that the testimony of the accomplice was not sufficiently corroborated, and upon that ground the Supreme Court reversed the conviction and granted a…
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