New York Court of Appeals June 10, 1965 (People v. De Flumer)

lead-opinion

Dye, J.

The defendant, at the time of the commission of the crime of which he was convicted, was a youth just short of 15 years. Emphasis upon this fact tends to divert, if not obliterate, the factors which led to his indictment for murder in the first degree and his eventual plea of guilty to a lesser degree of homicide.