Judgment affirmed.
Defendant committed the murder in 1960, when he was 15 years old. At that time, a person between the ages of 15 and 16 who was charged with a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment could be prosecuted as an adult (former Penal Law, § 2186). Murder in the first degree, the crime for which defendant was indicted, was such a crime (former Penal Law, § 1045). However, he was not indicted for that crime until 1976. In the interim, the...
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