People v. Cotton

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Pincus, J.), rendered June 18, 1991, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*578Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

On the night of March 19, 1989, Earnest Pearson died as the result of a "blunt impact” injury or injuries to the head. Pearson was a "worker” and the defendant was an "overseer” in a drug operation which sold crack from the basement of a house on St. Mark’s Avenue…