People v. Crimmins

This case has been remitted to us by the Court of Appeals. Defendant had appealed to us from (1) a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered May 13, 1971, convicting her of murder in the first degree and manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing her to life imprisonment for murder and to a prison term of 5 to 20 years for manslaughter, the sentences to run concurrently; and (2) an order of the same court, dated July 28, 1972, which denied her motion for a new trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence and improper conduct by the prosecutor in…