People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hellenbrand, J.), rendered March 10, 1988, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

The defendant was charged, under one indictment, with four separate incidents of robbery involving four different female victims in the elevators of apartment buildings in Brooklyn. Each count of…