People v. . Ryland
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant Elsie Ryland from a judgment of the General Term in the First Department, June, 1883, affirming a judgment of the court of General Sessions of New York, Hon. Frederick Smyth, Recorder, presiding, of May 18, 1882, of conviction of forgery in the third degree. The facts together with points of counsel are given upon the appeal to the General Term. 1 JV. T. Crim. Rep. 123.
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The prisoner, in conjunction with her husband and one Woodbury, was indicted for the crime of forgery in the third degree, and, being separately tried, was convicted of the offense. The evidence showed that all of the defendants combined and co-operated in the commission of the crime. At the close of the testimony counsel for the defendant requested the court to advise the jury to acquit the defendant on the ground that she was the wife of the co-defendant Edward 0. Ryland and was under the coercion, of her husband at the time when the offense was committed; that all that was done by her,…
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