People v. Hudson

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County, rendered February 16, 1978, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of robbery in the second degree. On June 6, 1977 at approximately 10:15 p.m., in furtherance of a plan to commit armed robbery, two men named Henry Edge and Roger Nelson entered O’Connor’s grocery store at 36 Judson Street in the City of Albany and held a gun on the proprietor and Timothy Hudson, the defendant, who, as planned, had preceded Edge and Nelson into the store. The defendant, playing the role of an innocent bystander, shouted, "Don’t shoot me”,…