People v. Spinks

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Warren County, rendered June 25, 1973, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of burglary in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, grand larceny in the second degree, kidnapping in the second degree and burglary in the third degree. During the early morning hours of October 28, 1969, Audrey and Melvin Smith were awakened in the bedroom of their Queensbury home by a person holding what appeared to be a pistol. After the Smiths were tied up by the gunman and questioned about money and the safes in their home and in a store which…