People v. Covington

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Agresta, J.), rendered March 11,1980, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, indictment dismissed and this case is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50. On September 20, 1979 defendant was indicted for robbery in the first degree, which was alleged to have occurred “on or about August 9,1979”. Thereafter, the People served a bill of particulars in which…