PEOPLE v. BATTLE


22 N.Y.2d 323 (1968)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Reginald Battle, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant S. Lewis and Anthony F. Marra for appellant.

Aaron E. Koota, District Attorney (Stanley M. Meyer of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, KEATING, BREITEL and JASEN concur.


BERGAN, J.

Defendant Battle has been convicted of assault, second degree, in a quarrel which started as a fist fight among three men, but in the course of which one Cage was stabbed. The Judge refused to leave open to the jury the alternative of finding defendant guilty of assault in the third degree. The proof is susceptible, however, of a reasonable doubt about defendant's having stabbed Cage or knowingly having...

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