Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Jerome J. S. Higgins, Petitioner, against Lewis J. Valentine, as Police Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1939-04-21
Citations: 256 A.D. 673
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Jerome J. S. Higgins, Petitioner, against Lewis J. Valentine, as Police Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 256
Pages: 673–674

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Jerome J. S. Higgins, Petitioner, against Lewis J. Valentine, as Police Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondent.
First Department,
April 21, 1939.
Julian V. Caraiba, for the petitioner.
Edward J. McGratty, Jr., of counsel [Henry J. Shields with him on the brief; William C. Chanler, Corporation Counsel], for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The evidence fully justified the commissioner in finding the petitioner guilty of signing the name of one Graham to an application for a New York city license as stationary engineer and falsely testifying before the commissioner of accounts that he did not know Raymond D. Malarkey or Brian R. O'Reilly. The petitioner's acquittal on charges contained in the first, second, fourth and sixth specifications does not necessarily imply that he was not guilty of these. It only decides that, as to these, his guilt was not established to the satisfaction of the commissioner.
The determination should be confirmed, with fifty dollars costs and disbursements to the respondent.
Present — Martin, P. J., Untermyer, Dore, Cohn and Callahan, JJ.; Dore, J., dissents.