PEOPLE v. KEITH


5 N.Y.2d 1037 (1959)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Leroy Keith, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Reargued February 23, 1959.

Decided March 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert S. Siegal and Solon S. Kane for appellant.

Daniel V. Sullivan, District Attorney (Irving Anolik, Walter E. Dillon and Andrew C. McCarthy of counsel), for respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge CONWAY and Judges DESMOND, DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE.


Upon reargument, judgment of conviction affirmed in the following memorandum: "Assuming that the alleged dying declaration of the victim, a copy of which has been furnished to counsel for appellant, was made in expectation of immediate death and after hope of recovery had been abandoned, it is so unclear and self contradictory that one cannot know that the person who took this stenographic statement was actually in communication with the dying man, who could not speak, and...

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