People v. Williams

Appeals from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County, rendered February 19, 1969, convicting appellant of the crime of criminally selling a dangerous drug in the second degree, and from an order of that court entered February 27, 1970 denying defendant’s application for a new trial. Appellant raises, inter alia, the following contentions: (1) the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the witness Kababjian to testify as an expert in the field of chemical analysis; (2) the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to charge that the jury had a right to assume that…