People v. Hudson

—Judgment of Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered November 27, 1981 after jury trial before Fred W. Eggert, J., convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree and imposing an indeterminate sentence of 7-Vfe to 15 years, reversed, on the law and the facts, and the indictment dismissed. Ralph De Jesus, a candy truck operator who had operated his confectionary truck for over 10 years in the Castle Hill area of The Bronx, was murdered in the truck on an August evening in 1980, during the course of an alleged robbery. Three eyewitnesses testified to the crime. The evidence was overwhelming…