Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York January 8, 1987 (People v. Rhoades)

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal, from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County (Scheinman, J.), rendered April 23, 1981, upon a verdict convicting defendant of three counts of the crime of murder in the second degree.

On September 20, 1979, Margie Polizzi was raped, sodomized and, before her untimely death, severely beaten.