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People v. Heath

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 17, 1938
254 App. Div. 379 (N.Y. App. Div. 1938)

Opinion

June 17, 1938.

Appeal from Court of General Sessions of the County of New York.

Joseph C. Morris, for the appellant.

Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., of counsel [ Karl Grebow with him on the brief; Thomas E. Dewey, District Attorney,], for the respondent.

Present — MARTIN, P.J., GLENNON, DORE, COHN and CALLAHAN, JJ.

Judgment modified by reducing the judgment of conviction to the crime of assault in the third degree and by reducing the sentence to the time already served, and as so modified affirmed.


In our opinion the record does not sustain the judgment with respect to the degree of the "crime found," to wit, assault in the second degree, but does warrant a judgment of conviction of a lesser degree of "such crime," to wit, assault in the third degree.

The judgment should be modified by reducing the judgment of conviction to the crime of assault in the third degree and the sentence reduced to the time already served, and as so modified affirmed. (Code Crim. Proc. § 543, subd. 2, as amd. by Laws of 1936, chap. 68.)


Summaries of

People v. Heath

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 17, 1938
254 App. Div. 379 (N.Y. App. Div. 1938)
Case details for

People v. Heath

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ROGER HEATH, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jun 17, 1938

Citations

254 App. Div. 379 (N.Y. App. Div. 1938)

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