People v. Lucas

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme *828Court, Queens County, rendered March 21, 1978, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. Defendant’s position at trial was that at the very time the robbery was alleged to have been committed in the jewelry store, he was taking a reading and mathematics examination at a manpower training center some distance away. The disinterested test examiner testified to that effect, and a handwriting expert identified defendant’s signature on the test…