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PEOPLE v. JACKSON

10 N.Y.2d 510 (1962)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Purnell Jackson, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 25, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Carley, Edward H. Potter, Hyman J. Greenberg, Eugene K. Jones and Robert E. Green for appellant.

Frank D. O'Connor, District Attorney (Benj. J. Jacobson of counsel), for respondent.

Judges FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur with Judge FROESSEL; Judge DYE dissents in an opinion in which Chief Judge DESMOND concurs.

FROESSEL, J.

Defendant stands convicted of murder in the first degree, and has been sentenced to death. He was indicted for the killing of one Cornelius Ogletree in the presence of eyewitnesses on the night of August 14, 1959. The decedent's body was found in the front seat of an automobile parked on 107th Street, Corona, Queens County, New York, with his trousers removed and hung around his neck and shoulders...

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