People v. Banks

Defendant appeals from .a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered March 21, 1973, convicting him, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a dangerous drug in the third degree and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered. Appellant was indicted along with one Charles Wills for the concerted, illicit sale of narcotics. Wills, in a separate indictment, was charged with selling narcotics on another occasion along with one Darnell Hamlett. The trial court granted the People’s application to consolidate the indictments for trial. It was…