¶1In a proceeding under article 7 of the Family Court Act, the .appeal is from an' order-of the-Family Court, Queens County, dated. July 27,. 1972, which adjudicated appellant a juvenile • delinquent and- placed' him-, on probation for. one year. Order reversed, on the.law and the facts, without costs, and petition dismissed. The récord is'-barren of any evidence tending to corrobórate" the testimony of the accomplice that it was appellant" who1 committed the. theft. In-such" cir-' cumstances the adjudication of juvenile delinquency cannot- stand '(People V. Fitzgerald, 244 N. Y. 307; Matter of Artliur If., 34 A.D 2d 761).■ Hopkins, Acting P. J., Gulotta, Christ, Brennan and Benjamin, JJ;, concur. ....
41 A.D.2d 674
In re William L.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 26, 1973
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1973-02-26
Relies on People v. Fitzgerald
Decided 1973-02-26