People v. Ashlay

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Linakis, J.), rendered November 29, 1984, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, robbery in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the second degree, assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The trial court committed reversible error by submitting to the jury, over…