Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Harrington, J.), rendered March 8, 1994, convicting him of forgery in the second degree (four counts), falsifying business records in the first degree (five counts), and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (four counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, counts two, five, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen of Nassau County Indictment No. 82212 are dismissed and a new trial is ordered on counts one, three, four, six and seven of the indictment.
The People concede that the County of Nassau lacked
As a general rule, when requested by a defendant, it is for the jury to determine whether there exists a factual predicate to try a defendant in a particular venue (see, People v Moore, 46 NY2d 1, 6-7). In this case, given the nature of the court’s charge, we are unable to discern upon which count or counts of the indictment the jury found geographic jurisdiction to exist.
We have examined the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Miller, J. P., O’Brien, Pizzuto and Krausman, JJ., concur.