PEOPLE v. JONES


27 N.Y.2d 222 (1970)

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

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 18, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Walker and Milton Adler for appellant.

Burton B. Roberts, District Attorney (Eliot L. Kaplan of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and GIBSON concur.


JASEN, J.

The primary issues in this case concern alleged errors in the court's instructions to the jury.

The facts are not seriously controverted. Defendant never denied that he stabbed his mother-in-law Anna Arnold, or her friend Elizabeth Steele during a reception in celebration of the marriage of his daughter. Rather, he testified that he had no recollection of stabbing either of these women, and...

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