Case ID: ny_308/html/0660-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. George Fuller and John Wilson, Appellants.
    Argued December 1, 1954;
    decided December 31, 1954.
    
      
      Maurice Frey for John Wilson, appellant, and Solomon Daniels for George Fuller, appellant.
    
      John F. Dwyer, District Attorney (Edward J. Marschner and Leonard Finlcelstein of counsel), for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

In this case the circumstantial evidence did not authorize the inference of critical facts from which the conclusion of guilt was drawn. Those facts were not proved, but were left to conjecture; the controlling inference was not clear and strong, pointing logically to defendants’ guilt and excluding to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis. (People v. Taddio, 292 N. Y. 488, 489, and cases cited.)

The judgments should be reversed and a new trial ordered.

Lewis, Ch. J., Conway, Desmond, Dye, Fuld, Froessel and Van Voorhis, JJ., concur.

Judgments reversed, etc.