People v. Summers

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered July 11, 1974, convicting him of murder, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered. On August 6, 1973, at approximately 4 p.m., the body of Lester Creekmore was discovered by police officers in front of 107-31 Union Hall Street, Jamaica, New York. The cause of death was established as a bullet wound of the chest. Defendant was indicted for the crime of murder, tried, convicted and sentenced.…