People v. Thomas

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.), dated November 21, 1986, convicting him of murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered; no questions of fact have been raised or considered.

The record reveals that during the jury charge on Friday, October 31, 1986, after the court had explained the general legal principles applicable to all criminal cases, but before the court analyzed the indictment and…