People v. Gonzales

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Cowhey, J.), rendered December 9, 1986, convicting him of burglary in the third degree, grand larceny in the third degree, and criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.

The trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on the accom*722plice corroboration rule was error (CPL 60.22 [1]). The testimony of Elizabeth Guzman, an…