People v. Mitchell

In the late afternoon of December 30, 1972 the battered and hacked body of Saroj Bardhanabedya was found in appellant’s room on the sixth floor of the Warrington Hotel in New York City. The deceased was a chambermaid in the hotel and had disappeared shortly after reporting for work at about 9:00 a.m. on the morning of her brutal demise. At that time she was observed leaving the elevator on the sixth floor of the hotel, where she had been assigned to clean vacated rooms, but was not seen alive thereafter. Mrs. Peck, a *176resident of the hotel, began looking for the deceased since the latter had…