Case Name: The People vs. Hester Pierpont
Court: Recorder of New York City
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1823-01
Citations: 1 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 139
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People vs. Hester Pierpont.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wheeler's Criminal Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 139–140

Head Matter:
The People vs. Hester Pierpont.
0n a ebarge stolen °good| £the7 is no »ompe District* Attomey prove that the house of the prisoner was the resort of felons, who came there to dispose of stolen goods.
Receiving stolen goods, knowing they were stolen.
Hester Pierpont was charged with receiving stolen goods, knowing they were stolen.
Maxwell, District Attorney,
after proving the sale part of the goods mentioned in the indictment, to her by William Anderson, who it appeared was the thief who stole them, offered to show that the house of the defendant was the resort of felons, who came there to dispose of their ^OOty.
D. Graham, counsel for the prisoner,
objected.

Opinion:
The Court
overruled the evidence ; and the prisoner acquitted,