PEOPLE v. CHAFFEE


42 A.D.2d 172 (1973)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Howard Chaffee, Jr., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel J. Castellino, Public Defender (M. Joseph Danaher of counsel), for appellant.

John F. O'Mara, District Attorney (Ransom P. Reynolds, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.

GREENBLOTT, J. P., KANE, MAIN and REYNOLDS, JJ., concur.


COOKE, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County, rendered November 17, 1972, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of arson in the second degree (Penal Law, § 150.15).

Defendant, a 22-year-old, who had been a patient at Newark State School, a facility for mentally deficient persons, from 1963 to 1968, was convicted after a trial by jury of the crime of...

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