People v. Perez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Reilly, J.), rendered November 20, 1981 convicting defendant, after jury trial, of manslaughter in the second degree (Penal Law, § 125.15) and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law, § 265.02), and sentencing him thereon to a term of imprisonment, is unanimously reversed, on the law, and as a matter of *469discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial ordered. The homicide here involved arose out of an altercation between defendant, the owner of a “bodega,” and the decedent, a customer (perhaps nonpaying). It was the…