Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. George Fuller and John Wilson, Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1954-12-31
Citations: 308 N.Y. 660
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. George Fuller and John Wilson, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 308
Pages: 660–662

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.