Judgment reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
The trial court erred during its charge on the "recent and exclusive possession" of the proceeds of the robbery, in that it failed to explicitly charge that two permissible inferences of guilt could be drawn from the facts of the case: (1) that defendant was involved in the robbery; or (2) that defendant was merely the knowing possessor of the stolen car. The court's charge...
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