Court Opinion

ID: 9867363
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 15:56:32.361208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:14.322714
License: Public Domain

Cardozo, J.,
concurs in the result .upon the ground that justice requires a new trial: First, because of the error of the court in receiving in evidence as proof of motive an instrument to prevent conception found in the defendant’s pocket; second, because of the failure to strike from the record the statement of the witness Hurt as to the contents of a postal card, after the *543progress of the trial had demonstrated that the supposed basis for her knowledge of the defendant’s handwriting was unreal; and, third, because of possible misconception by the jury as to the authorship of People’s Exhibit 32, and the omission of the trial judge to avert such misconception by adequate instructions.
Pound and Crane, JJ., dissent and vote for affirmance under provisions of section 542 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Judgment of conviction reversed, etc.