People v. Santana

Appeal by defendants from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered January 22, 1971, convicting them, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees, grand larceny in the third degree and assault in the second degree, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed on the law and the case is remanded to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for a new trial. The court’s charge, while not excepted to, contained several errors which individually and collectively deprived defendants of a fair trial. Defendants were charged with, inter alla, having committed the crime of…