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PEOPLE v. FLOYD

13 N.Y.2d 820 (1963)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Fred J. Floyd, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 10, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Siff and Herbert H. Hirschhorn for appellant.

Isidore Dollinger, District Attorney (Walter E. Dillon of counsel), for respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE, FOSTER and SCILEPPI. Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents in the following opinion.

Judgment affirmed.

VAN VOORHIS, J. (dissenting).

During the afternoon of November 20, 1952 a grocery storekeeper named Samuel Cohen was shot and killed in his store at 224 West 238th Street, Bronx. The shooting occurred during a robbery. This was an unsolved felony murder for more than eight years until one Herrmann, who had moved to Chester, New York, confessed on February 13, 1961 implicating himself...

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