PEOPLE v. POLLOCK


21 N.Y.2d 206 (1967)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Herbert L. Pollock and William Arnold, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 28, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold D. Roseman for Herbert L. Pollock, appellant.

Robert S. Schneider and Jacob P. Lefkowitz for William Arnold, appellant.

Aaron E. Koota, District Attorney (Aaron Nussbaum of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE and BERGAN concur with Judge VAN VOORHIS; Judge SCILEPPI dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judges KEATING and BREITEL concur.


VAN VOORHIS, J.

The defendants were charged with killing Martin Funk on December 14, 1962, by inflicting fatal wounds upon him with a knife. They confessed to killing Funk during a robbery at Funk's television repair shop. Defendant Pollock made admissions to persons who occupied an apartment with him that he had held up a store and stabbed the victim. He was not quoted as having identified the store or the victim...

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