Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.
Defendant was indicted for the crimes of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree based upon his alleged use of a broken beer mug as a dangerous instrument to inflict injury upon the victim during a barroom altercation. The record reveals that the jury began deliberations at 11:00 A.M. on March 6, 1979. During the morning of March 7 it submitted a note to the court in...
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