People v. Walker

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered April 14, 1976, convicting him of two counts of assault in the first degree, assault in the third degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered. This case arises out of an interfamilial conflict which had its origins in a fight between the defendant’s lover and his wife. In order to redress an insult to his wife, defendant confronted his lover,…