Haskins v. . the People
New York Court of Appeals
Weit of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court, affirming, on error to that court, a judgment of the Oyer and Terminer of Onondaga county. The prisoner was indicted, with four other persons, for grand larceny, the property alleged to have been stolen being money and bank notes, the property of David J. Shaw.
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Weit of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court, affirming, on error to that court, a judgment of the Oyer and Terminer of Onondaga county. The prisoner was indicted, with four other persons, for grand larceny, the property alleged to have been stolen being money and bank notes, the property of David J. Shaw. It was described in the indictment as “ two promissory notes for the payment of money, commonly called bank notes, of the Stonington Bank, current money of the State of New-York, each of the value of fifty dollars; bank bills of banks to the jurors unknown, and of a number and…
1Opinion of the Court 1
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.]
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The indictment was sufficient. When the substance of the offence is set out, the jurors may omit a matter of description which they cannot ascertain. (The People v. Taylor, 3Denio, 91, and cases cited.) If this were not so there would often be a failure of justice. In the case of the stealing of a considerable parcel of bank notes…
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2Cases cited3 opinions
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- People v. CostelloCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1845
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