People v. Connors

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.), rendered April 20, 1978, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and matter remitted to Criminal Term for new trials in accordance herewith. A robbery was committed on October 7, 1977 by three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun. Several hours thereafter and two miles away from the scene of the robbery, defendant was seen by police officers in possession of a handgun…