· 5/12/1958
Devenco Inc. v. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.
Citations
- 12 Misc. 2d 949
- 174 N.Y.S.2d 132
- 1958 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 3362
How courts have described this case
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- holding evidence was insufficient to establish that defendant knew vehicle was stolen where it was stolen weeks earlier and he referred to it as his
- holding possession 37 days after theft of automobile was not recent, and no other evidence linked defendant to theft
- possession thirty-seven days after the theft of an automobile was not recent, and no other evidence linked the defendant to the theft
- possession of an automobile 37 days after the car was stolen is “not very recent”.
- possession of an automobile 37 days after the car was stolen is \not very recent\.
- defendant’s possession of car 37 days after it was stolen “was not very ‘recent’” and thus did not support guilty knowledge inference
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Judges: Hoestadter
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