[Download] "People State New York v. Yonkers Contracting Co." by Court of Appeals of New York * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State New York v. Yonkers Contracting Co.
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 05, 1966
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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These appeals and cross appeals relate to the sufficiency of the evidence before the Grand Jury to sustain indictments for grand larceny against Yonkers Contracting Co., Inc. (hereafter called Yonkers) and a number of its officers and employees, also indictments likewise for grand larceny against certain members and employees of an engineering firm known as Briggs, Blitman and Posner. Bribery indictments were also found against Yonkers and two of its officers, as well as one Louis G. Blackhall, who was then an engineer in the employ of the State Department of Public Works. The Appellate Division held that the Grand Jury minutes disclosed sufficient evidence to sustain the charges against all of these defendants, but that each of the individual defendants had acquired immunity except the defendant Cipolla on a grand larceny charge, and the defendants Snook and Posner of the engineering firm who, also, were charged with grand larceny. Being a corporation, Yonkers cannot claim immunity (Matter of Bleakley v. Schlesinger, 294 N. Y. 312) and is subject to the charges of grand larceny and of giving or offering bribes. As the case comes to us, Cipolla, Snook and Posner are charged with grand larceny, first degree, and Yonkers is subject to that charge and, alone among the defendants, to the other charge of giving or offering bribes. Each of them appeals. The People appeal from the dismissal of the indictments against individual defendants. In addition to asserting immunity, each defendant contended (and contends before us) that the evidence before the Grand Jury was insufficient to establish larceny by anyone even when unexplained and uncontradicted (Code Crim. Pro., § 251).