PEOPLE v. DAVIS


53 A.D.2d 870 (1976)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Stancil Davis, Also Known as Lorenzo Davis, Lester Lee, William Edward Rose, Jr., and Lawrence Crossland, Appellants

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

July 6, 1976


Judgments reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.

Defendants stand convicted of murder, arising out of the shooting of an off-duty police officer during the course of a robbery. A prior trial ended in a hung jury. The prosecution's case rested primarily upon the testimony of four witnesses: an alleged accomplice and three women, girl-friends of various of the defendants, who related admissions allegedly...

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