People v. Yacobellis

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered May 17, 1963 after a jury trial, convicting him of robbery in the third degree (3 counts), and other related crimes; and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. No opinion. Beldock, P. J., Brennan and Hopkins, JJ., concur; Ughetta and Hill, JJ., dissent and vote to reverse the judgment and to grant a new trial, with the following memorandum: In our opinion, there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the two accomplices who had testified against defendant. The testimony by the victims that this defendant…