Court Opinion

ID: 3598525
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:45:36.61396+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:55.331125
License: Public Domain

I dissent. Defendant having with knowledge repeatedly received goods stolen from a dry goods firm by one of its employees, suggested to the employee that a certain specified kind of cloth be taken, he was told by the employee that that particular kind of cloth was not kept on his floor, and he then said that he would take a roll of a certain Italian cloth. The employee then stole a roll of the Italian cloth and carried it away, but left it in another store where he could subsequently get it for delivery to the defendant. Before it was actually delivered to the defendant the employers discovered that the employee had been stealing from them and they accused him of the thefts. The employee then confessed his guilt and told them of the piece of cloth that had been stolen for the defendant, but had not actually been delivered to him. The roll of cloth so stolen was then taken by another employee of the firm and it was arranged at the police headquarters that the employee who had taken the cloth should deliver it to the defendant, which he did, and the defendant paid the employee about one-half the value thereof. The defendant was then arrested and this indictment was thereafter found against him. That the defendant intended to commit a crime is undisputed. I think the record shows an attempt to commit the crime of criminally receiving property as defined in sections 550 and 34 of the Penal Code, within the decisions of this court inPeople v. Moran (123 N.Y. 254) and People v. Gardner
(144 N.Y. 119).
CULLEN, Ch. J., GRAY, EDWARD T. BARTLETT, VANN and WERNER JJ., concur with WILLARD BARTLETT, J.; CHASE, J., dissents in memorandum.
Judgment of conviction reversed, etc. *Page 504