Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Charles N. Lebauer, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1926-07-09
Citations: 243 N.Y. 589
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Charles N. Lebauer, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 243
Pages: 589–590

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Charles N. Lebauer, Appellant.
(Argued June 2, 1926;
decided July 9, 1926.)
Joseph Shalleck for appellant.
Joab H. Banton, District Attorney (William B. Moore of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This judgment must be reversed. The defendant was convicted under section 1293-b of the Penal Law. Proof of the falsity of the financial statement made by him rests entirely upon two exhibits received in evidence over his objection and exception. Exhibit 1 is a loose leaf ledger of the defendant " reconstructed " by his trustee in bankruptcy by means of exhibit 6. Its accuracy depends ultimately on the accuracy and competency of this last exhibit. This seems to be conceded. Exhibit 6 is a statement apparently prepared by one Richmond at the request of the trustee. He had at one time been in defendant's employ but at this date was so no longer. Richmond was not called as a witness. How he prepared the statement; what information he had in regard thereto; to what books of the defendant he had access and how correctly it was made nowhere appears. Clearly unconnected as it is in any way with the defendant this statement was incompetent. With it out of the case there is no evidence whatever that the financial report made by the defendant was untrue.
The judgments of the courts below should be reversed and a new trial granted.
Iiiscock, . Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ., concur.
Judgments reversed, etc.