People v. Konono

The defendant herein was convicted of the crimes of murder in the second degree and arson in the first degree after a trial by jury in 1957. On May 18, 1961, the Court of Appeals reversed said judgment of conviction and ordered a new trial (9 N Y 2d 924). The basis of that reversal was that any reference to previous convictions should have been deleted from the indictment in the third count which charged the crime of arson in the first degree.

The original indictment charged the crime of murder in the first degree and the crime of arson in the first degree. The second count of the indictment…