People v. Mattison

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County, rendered October 5, 1978, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of robbery in the first degree. At trial defendant readily conceded an armed robbery had occurred at a gas station as alleged in the indictment, and acknowledged his participation in some of the events surrounding the commission of that offense. However, he testified that in doing so he had not intended to appropriate another’s property by force, but had acted solely in the capacity of a police informant gathering evidence to be used in a prosecution of…