Legal Opinion
People v. Davila
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 29, 1985PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mollen, P. J.
The primary question presented on this appeal is whether the People presented sufficient evidence to corroborate the accomplice’s trial testimony, which inculpated the defendant in the death of Fred Aikins. We conclude that the evidence was sufficient and therefore affirm.
On March 16, 1979, at approximately 12:10 a.m., Richard Simmons, a New York City Transit Authority bus operator, who had just pulled out of a bus depot, spotted Fred Aikins lying on *109the ground near a cemetery. Aikins, who appeared to be “hurt bad”, was taken to Lutheran Memorial Medical…
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