People v. Outler

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 9, 1967, convicting defendant of violation of the Public Health Law with respect to narcotic drugs as a felony, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence, reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. The findings of fact below are affirmed. In our opinion the testimony adduced in this narcotics prosecution from the People’s chief witness, a narcotics detective, that defendant was previously known to him from “a similar occasion” was severely prejudicial and buttressed a prior implication that the detective previously knew defendant…