People v. Cole

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered September 10, 1974, convicting the defendant after a jury trial of the crimes of criminal sale of a dangerous drug in the third degree (three separate counts), affirmed. The issues presented at trial involved testing of the credibility of the various witnesses, and those issues were correctly resolved by the members of the jury as triers of the facts. We find that neither the prosecutor’s cross-examination of the defendant nor his summation to the jury was improper. The cross-examination conducted by the prosecutor relating to a prior robbery…