People v. Murray

—Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered September 30, 1977, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. Defendant’s indictment for reckless endangerment in the first degree arose out of a shooting incident which occurred on July 11, 1976. It was the People’s theory that defendant took several shots at one Louis Jones, an older brother of defendant’s girl friend. The evidence indicated that there were strained feelings between defendant…