People v. Newell

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, *816Queens County (Chetta, J.), rendered March 5, 1981, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, grand larceny in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment modified, on the law, by reversing the defendant’s conviction on the third count of the indictment charging him with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, the sentence imposed thereon is vacated and that count of the indictment is…