Unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs and without disbursements, and the petition dismissed.
Although the written charge against respondent-appellant accused him of having, from a position between two subway cars, snatched the purse of a passenger on the platform, it developed that the actual thief was one of two other persons at the same place. At most, therefore, respondent could have been an accomplice, assisting by blocking the car door, or in some other...
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