People v. Joyner

Chief Judge Fuld.

The record leaves no doubt that Albert Hicks died of a stab wound and that it was the defendant who inflicted it in the course of robbing him. While in the company of several friends, the defendant asked one of them, a Johnnie Cooper, for a loan. “ I need some money,” he told him, “I have to get it one way or another, even if I have to kill somebody.”1 A few minutes later, Hicks came along on the other side of the street; the defendant walked over to him and they entered a building together where they remained for a short time. When they emerged from the building, the…