People v. Orr

The defendant-appellant has been convicted of the crime of unlawfully entering a building with the intent to commit a larceny, felony and malicious mischief therein. The Appellate Division has sustained the conviction, two justices dissenting. This appeal is by permission of a justice of the Appellate Division.

The evidence in the record may be summarized as follows:

On January 29,1935, at 6:35 p. m., a detective employed by the Holmes Protective Agency encountered the defendant running down the freight side or fire exit stairs from the second floor of a twenty-story building. The detective,…