People v. Van Dusen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Alva Van Dusen, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of Mew York in favor of the plaintiff, rendered on the loth day of October, 1897, convicting him of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree, and also from an order entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 3d day of May, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The defendant was convicted of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree and sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the term of one year, and in addition thereto to pay a fine of $350. He has appealed from the judgment of conviction and also from an order denying a motion for a new trial on the ground of *224newly-discovered evidence. Upon the trial, the testimony of. the witnesses on the part of the People tended to establish that on the 31st of July, 1897, one Dukehart and his wife were boarding at a house in the city of New York, the management of which, to…
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