People v. Stuckey

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered October 22, 1975, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and kidnapping in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. The circumstances of this case present clearly separate crimes of robbery and kidnapping (see People v Black, 18 AD2d 719; cf. People v Levy, 15 NY2d 159, 165, cert den 381 US 938). Although the period of confinement was not very long, it is impossible to know how long it would have lasted had Mrs. Justice not become hysterical, thereby causing…