PEOPLE v. BROWN


173 A.D.2d 236 (1991)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Basil Brown, Appellant

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

May 9, 1991


The evidence was sufficient to sustain defendant's conviction of grand larceny in the fourth degree. While employing a ruse to obtain money from two unwitting tourists attempting to get a taxicab in front of Grand Central Terminal, defendant and an accomplice stole seventy dollars from the hand of one of the women. Since there was no reasonable view of the evidence that the woman voluntarily surrendered this money, the court properly declined to charge petit larceny as a...

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