Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1984

People v. Echevarria

People v. Echevarria
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 13, 1984
105 A.D.2d 753; 481 N.Y.S.2d 185; 1984 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 20871
People v. Echevarria

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Clabby, J.), rendered August 18, 1983, convicting him of assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

The facts of this case support the finding that defendant intended to cause serious physical injury (assault in the first degree, Penal Law, § 120.10, subd 1). There is no reasonable view of the evidence which would have supported a finding that defendant intended to cause only physical injury within the definition of assault in the second degree (Penal Law, § 120.05, subd 2) as opposed to serious physical injury. Accordingly, the trial court’s refusal to charge second degree assault was not error (see People v Blim, 63 NY2d 718; People v Kinnard, 98 AD2d 845, affd 62 NY2d 910; People v Scarborough, 49 NY2d 364, 372-373).

We find no merit to defendant’s other contentions. Mangano, J. P., Gibbons, O’Connor and Lawrence, JJ., concur.

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