People v. Matthews

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered June 8, 1976, convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered. Defendant drove a company car out of his former employer’s parking lot without permission. The next day, he brought the car to a police station and expressed his desire to return it to his former employer. Defendant asked the police to cancel the alarm on the car so that he could return it himself. An…