People v. Crayton

—Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Warren County (Moynihan, Jr., J.), rendered January 2, 1991, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of assault in the second degree and bail jumping in the second degree.

*791Before trial, the complaining witness in this matter left for Florida without leaving a forwarding address with anyone, including her grown children. Although the witness had testified at the preliminary hearing, she purportedly left New York because she was too emotionally devastated to testify at trial. After attempting to locate the witness, the People…