People v. Colarco

OPINION OF THE COURT

Silverman, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of Supreme Court, Bronx County, convicting him after jury trial of two counts of robbery in the first degree, and a count of attempted robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 7 to 21 years and 5 to 15 years.

There are involved here three knife-point robberies, or attempted robberies, of women in elevators of apartment buildings at Co-op City.

The point that divides the court relates to the propriety of the cross-examination of defendant’s alibi witness—his…