People v. Murtha

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered October 10, 1975, convicting the defendant after a jury trial of the crime of grand larceny in the third degree, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial. Reginald Hooks, a cab driver, testified that he picked up the defendant, George Murtha, at 42d Street in Manhattan in the early morning hours of May 11, 1974, and was directed to 233d Street in The Bronx. The driver was proceeding along the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx when Murtha told him to leave the highway at the 179th Street exit. The cabbie was…