249 A.D. 890 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1937
Appeal from a judgment of conviction under an indictment charging burglary, and grand larceny in the first degree. A clothing store was broken into in the city of Troy, and eighty-six suits of clothes, valued at $1,800, were stolen, on July 29, 1932. On January 7,1936, the defendant was arrested and interrogated about various crimes committed in the city of Troy, all of which he denied. There is testimony that would warrant the jury in finding that the defendant admitted to the police officers, and subsequently to the assistant district attorney, that he and a companion were the persons who feloniously entered the clothing store before mentioned, and stole therefrom eighty-six suits of clothes on July 29, 1932; that the defendant admitted these facts to the police officers and to the district attorney, and that the district attorney correctly wrote down a statement of those facts at the time the defendant was taken into custody, and that the defendant read over the document and admitted the truth of the statements therein contained, but refused to sign it until he had consulted his lawyer; that there was no coercion