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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Salvatore Sileo, Appellant.
   Judgment of conviction by the County Court of Kings county and order denying motion for a new trial reversed upon the law, and a new trial ordered. We think the court erred in charging as a matter of law that the complaining witness was not an.accomplice. Whether he was an accomplice or not depended upon whether there was a voluntary submission to. the.act on his part, and this was a question of‘fact. . Blackmar, P. J., Kelly, Manning, Kelby and Young, JJ., concur. 
      
      See Penal Law, § 690. — [Rep.