Opinion
March 14, 1930.
Appeal from County Court of the County of Richmond.
Alfred V. Norton, for the appellant.
Lester L. Callan, Assistant District Attorney [ Albert C. Fach, District Attorney, with him on the brief], for the respondent.
Present — LAZANSKY, P.J., YOUNG, CARSWELL, SCUDDER and TOMPKINS, JJ.
In light of the testimony of witnesses that defendant had stated that he had authorized his brother to bribe the complaining witness in order to keep the latter away from the trial, the testimony of the complaining witness that a person, who stated that he was a brother of defendant, had paid him $250 to keep away from the trial was properly admissible. ( Adams v. People, 9 Hun, 89.)
On reargument, the judgment of conviction of the County Court of Richmond county should be affirmed.
On reargument, judgment of conviction of the County Court of Richmond county unanimously affirmed.