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The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. George S. Van Der Werken, Appellant.
    
      Crimes — officers — making or giving false certificate — judgment of conviction affirmed. t
    
    
      People v. Van Der Werken, 215 App. Div. 721, affirmed.
    (Argued March 3, 1926;
    decided March 30, 1926.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 13, 1925, which affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court rendered at a Trial Term for the county of Nassau, upon a verdict convicting the defendant of a violation of section 1861 of the Penal Law in that he, as a public officer, being authorized by law to make or give a certificate or other writing, knowingly made and delivered as true such a certificate containing a statement which he knew to be false.
    
      Henry A. Uterhart, Alfred M. Schaffer and Peter P. Smith for appellant.
    
      Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General (Kenneth M. Spence and Robert S. Johnstone of counsel), for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: Cardozo, J.