PEOPLE v. LESSER


280 A.D. 441 (1952)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Samuel Lesser, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Mintz for appellant.

Stuart G. Schwartz of counsel (Richard G. Denzer with him on the brief; Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney), for respondent.

PECK, P. J., and CALLAHAN, J., concur with COHN, J.; DORE, J., dissents and votes to reverse, in opinion.


COHN, J.

In the present coram nobis proceeding, initially instituted in December, 1943, defendant attacks his judgment of conviction entered in 1932 upon the ground that the verdict of the jury was obtained by fraud on the part of the prosecuting official; and it is now suggested that defendant was also denied a constitutional right of confrontation of witnesses upon a motion for a new trial made upon the...

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