New York Criminal Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in All Courts of the State of New York Involving Questions of Criminal Law and Practice with Notes and References, Volume 38W.C. Little & Company, 1922 |
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... defendant , the owner of cattle , left them without food ; some died of starvation ; others became so poor and weak that ... defendant's request ; instead of that it showed , in sub- stance , that the defendant was allowing his cattle to ...
... defendant , the owner of cattle , left them without food ; some died of starvation ; others became so poor and weak that ... defendant's request ; instead of that it showed , in sub- stance , that the defendant was allowing his cattle to ...
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... defendant and Harris in the New York city restaurant , as testified to by Harris , up to December 2 , 1918 , nothing ... defendant's wife did meet Harris at the hotel , after first going to a bank where she kept an ac- count , and gave ...
... defendant and Harris in the New York city restaurant , as testified to by Harris , up to December 2 , 1918 , nothing ... defendant's wife did meet Harris at the hotel , after first going to a bank where she kept an ac- count , and gave ...
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... defendant had engaged him to burn or get some one to burn this creamery , and tended to con- nect defendant with this transaction . But even more significant on the question of corroboration is the transaction at defendant's house on ...
... defendant had engaged him to burn or get some one to burn this creamery , and tended to con- nect defendant with this transaction . But even more significant on the question of corroboration is the transaction at defendant's house on ...
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... defendant's motion for a new trial under section 465 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on the ground of newly ... defendant's substantial rights . The only question which now requires solution is that raised by the defendant's motion for ...
... defendant's motion for a new trial under section 465 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on the ground of newly ... defendant's substantial rights . The only question which now requires solution is that raised by the defendant's motion for ...
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... defendant with it . It is sufficient if it tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime . Nor need the corroborative evidence be wholly incon- sistent with the theory of the defendant's innocence . court , before it ...
... defendant with it . It is sufficient if it tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime . Nor need the corroborative evidence be wholly incon- sistent with the theory of the defendant's innocence . court , before it ...
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Page 478 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 121 - As the term is generally understood, the 'practice' of the law is the doing or performing services in a court of justice, in any matter depending therein, throughout its various stages, and in conformity to the adopted rules of procedure. But in a larger sense it includes legal advice and counsel, and the preparation of legal instruments and contracts by which legal rights are secured, although such matter may or may not be depending in a court.
Page 427 - The rule that a penal statute is to be strictly construed does not apply to this chapter or any of the provisions thereof, but all such provisions must be construed according to the fair import of their terms, to promote justice and effect the objects of the law.
Page 481 - whenever the executive authority of any State or territory demands any person as a fugitive from justice of the executive authority of any State or territory to which such person has fled, and...
Page 177 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 415 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another, or 2. By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without a premeditated design to effect the death of any individual; or without a design to effect death, by a person engaged in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit a felony, either upon or affecting the person killed or otherwise; or, 3. When perpetrated in committing the crime...
Page 326 - A person who, with the intent to deprive or defraud the true owner of his property, or of the use and benefit thereof, or to appropriate the same to the use of the taker, or of any other person, either 1.
Page 316 - ... an action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, or to pay a sum of money, or to incur a charge, forfeiture, or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the offender, or to another person ; Is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for not more than ten years.
Page 394 - When the judgment is of death, the court of appeals may order a new trial, If it be satisfied that the verdict was against the weight of evidence or against law, or that justice requires a new trial, whether any exception shall have been taken or not in the court below.
Page 411 - Assaults another with a loaded fire-arm, or any other deadly weapon, or by any other means or force likely to produce death ; or 2. Administers to or causes to be administered to or taken by another, poison, or any other destructive or noxious thing, so as to endanger the life of such other ; Is guilty of assault in the first degree.