People v. Corbisiero

By permission of a Judge of this court, the defendant appeals from an affirmance of a judgment convicting him of the crime of murder in the second degree.

He had kept a pastry shop on Hudson avenue north of the intersection thereof with Prospect street in the borough of Brooklyn. Andrea Romano had lived on the opposite side of Hudson avenue, south of that intersection. In the early evening of September 8,1941, Romano was found by the police upon the pavement in front of the defendant’s shop suffering from a stab wound of the abdomen which resulted the next day in his death.

The principal…