People v. Hayes

Defendants were jointly tried on an indictment charging robbery second degree by forcibly stealing a sum of money and a cash register from Charles Humphrey while aided by another, burglary third degree and petit larceny. They appeal from separate judgments convicting them, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree. They had been found not guilty of the crimes charged in the indictment.

The prosecution produced evidence at the trial that on September 24, 1972 at about 2:30 a.m. six men in a car with a flat tire drove into a service station to have the…