People v. Blake

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court,. Queens County, rendered August 20, 1969; convicting defendant of murder, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law and in the interests of justice, and new trial ordered. Defendant was convicted of felony murder, arising out of the death of an elderly woman during an alleged robbery in Queens County on January 30, 1968. The sole evidence linking him with the crime was his own written “confession” (in question and answer form), plus several oral admissions. These statements relate that defendant and one…