People v. O'Brien

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Tsoucalas, J.), rendered January 5, 1981, convicting her of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. On the evening of December 23, 1978, defendant, during an altercation, fatally stabbed Frank Catrone, a chronic alcoholic in whose apartment she and her infant son had been living for some two and a half months. Defendant left the apartment where the incident had occurred,…