Summary
In Kase, a prosecution for the filing of a false instrument, an intent to defraud was found where a person intentionally filed a false statement with a public office for the purpose of frustrating the State's power to fulfill its responsibility to carry out faithfully its own law.
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Argued May 7, 1981
Decided June 4, 1981
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, LEON POLSKY, J.
Joel A. Brenner, David S. Greenfield and Paula Schwartz Frome for appellant-respondent.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Allen Alpert and Robert M. Pitler of counsel), for respondent-appellant.
Order affirmed for reasons stated in the Per Curiam opinion at the Appellate Division ( 76 A.D.2d 532).
Concur: Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER.