People v. Fink

THOMPSON (IRA F.), J.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing the defendant for the crime of robbery and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. The trial was upon the issue raised by the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, the defendant having entered the plea of guilty. But two reasons are assigned why we should reverse the judgment, the first being that the court refused consideration of the instructions proffered by defendant because they were not tendered to the court until the beginning of defendant’s argument, and the other that the court first refused to permit the…