People v. Lewis

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered June 9, 1977 upon a jury verdict convicting defendant of criminal facilitation in the first degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a prison term of from three to six years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the case remanded for a new trial for allegedly facilitating commission of a crime. After the evidence was closed and before the summations, the prosecution requested a charge on what was then criminal facilitation in the first degree (Penal Law, § 115.05). Although the court indicated it did not view that as a…