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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jacob Schenkel, Appellant.
    (Argued February 18, 1931;
    decided March 24, 1931.)
    
      A. F. Walsh for appellant.
    
      John B. Smith, District Attorney (William E. Bennett of counsel), for respondent.
   Judgment of the County Court reversed and case remitted to the trial court for the preparation of a new return on the ground that the return made insufficiently states the evidence upon which the conviction was obtained. The trial judge was charged with a duty to keep proper minutes of the trial. If he chose to delegate that duty to a stenographer and cannot obtain a copy of the minutes except by paying for them he should pay whatever is necessary for the discharge of his official duty; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Crane, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ. Not sitting: Pound and Hubbs, JJ.