People v. Tanner

Defendant has been sentenced in Queens County to a maximum of 40 years for robbery first degree, manslaughter *105second degree and felonious possession of weapons and instruments. Proof was adequate that defendant and a companion held up a taxi driver and rohhed him and that, after the robbery was completed and while the taxi driver was sitting in the cab offering no resistance, this defendant opened the door of the cab, shot and killed the driver. The crime was established both by defendant’s confessions and by the testimony of Kenneth Fulmore, an accomplice. The sufficiency of the evidence to…