People v. Hughes

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tompkins County, rendered December 30, 1975, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of attempted robbery in the second degree. At the trial of this case the defendant and the People presented substantially *955different versions of the incident which led to this conviction. The alleged victim of the crime, Douglas Dickerson, testified that while he was walking down a street in the City of Ithaca, at about 12:30 a.m. on October 26, 1974, he was approached by the defendant and one Walter Stowe and that, without provocation, he was grabbed and…