Phelps v. People
New York Supreme Court
Writ of error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Albany, to review a conviction of the plaintiff in error of forgery in the third degree, for making a false entry in a book of accounts, kept in the office of the State Treasurer. Among the other counts in the indictment were the following: FIRST COUNT.
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Writ of error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in and for the county of Albany, to review a conviction of the plaintiff in error of forgery in the third degree, for making a false entry in a book of accounts, kept in the office of the State Treasurer. Among the other counts in the indictment were the following: FIRST COUNT. City and County or Albany, ss. : The jurors for the people of the State of New York, in and for the body of the city and county of Albany, being then and there sworn and charged, upon their oath, Present, that Charles IT. Phelps, late of the First ward, in the city of…
1Opinion of the Court
Learned, P. J.:
The plaintiff in error was convicted at the Albany Oyer and Terminer of forgery in the third degree, for making a false entry in a book of accounts kept in the office of the State Treasurer.
The statute under which he was indicted and convicted is as follows: “ Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any false entry, or shall falsely alter any entry made in any book of accounts kept in the office of the Comptroller of this State, or in the office of the Treasurer, or of the Surveyor-General, or of any County Treasurer, by which any demand or obligation, claim, right…
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