Opinion
Argued March 1, 1971
Decided April 7, 1971
Appeal from the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, ARTHUR H. GOLDBERG, P.J., ANTHONY F. MARRA and KENNETH W. O'HARE, JJ.
Michael Meltsner, Bruce Ratner and Diana Budzanoski for appellants.
Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney ( Bennett L. Gershman, Michael R. Juviler and Burton N. Lipshie of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment reversed and the information dismissed on the ground that the crime of menacing of which the defendants were convicted did not constitute a lesser degree of any one of the crimes — riot (Penal Law, § 240.05), reckless endangerment (§ 120.20) and resisting arrest (§ 205. 30) — with which they had been charged and on which they had been put to trial (see People v. Moyer, 27 N.Y.2d 252).
Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON.