People v. Gray

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Fulton County, rendered March 25, 1974, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime *675of assault in the first degree. Following his departure from a tavern in the City of Gloversville some time after midnight and in the early morning hours of December 4, 1973, John Hand was stabbed with a knife. He testified that the person wielding the knife was the same person with whom he had been involved in an unpleasant incident earlier at the tavern. Although Hand was unable to identify the defendant as his assailant at trial, the proprietor of the…