PEOPLE v. DE LAGE


65 A.D.2d 626 (1978)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard De Lage, Appellant

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

October 30, 1978


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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