People v. Gallo

Chief Judge Desmond:

Defendant was convicted by a Kings County Court jury of two counts of robbery in the first degree and one of kidnapping and the judgment against him was unanimously affirmed by the Appellate Division. He does not question the legal sufficiency of the proof that, with another man, he held up two Brooklyn gas stations in the early morning of May 27, 1957, and forced an attendant in one station to ride with them in their getaway car.

Two rulings as to the admission of testimony are' pointed to as reversible errors. After defendant had been arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court on…