People v. Smith

—White, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County *738(LaBuda, J.), rendered June 20, 1997, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, burglary in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and grand larceny in the third degree.

Defendant was arrested in connection with a robbery that occurred at the Kiamesha Lake post office located in the Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, in which he bound and gagged a female clerk at knifepoint. He made several inculpatory oral and written…