People v. Browne
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by tbe defendant, Henry Huffman Browne, from a judgment of tbe Court of General Sessions of tlie-Peace in and.for tbe county of New York, rendered on tbe 23d day of March, 1906, convicting him of tbe crime of forgery in tbe first degree, and also from two orders respectively denying tbe defendant’s motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The indictment under which defendant was tried and convicted of the crime of forgery in the first degree .contained a count for forging and another for uttering a deed purporting to convey as tbe act of one "William R. Hubert certain real property situated in tbe county of Hew York to complainant Benjamin W, Levitan.
A certain tract of land of which tbe premises described in tbe deed were a part originally belonged, as is conceded, .to one Mary Ann Peterson, wlio, with her entire family, in 1888, "was drowned at sea. Tbe defendant, who. was a practicing attorney at law, had known…
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