People v. Torres

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (O’Dwyer, J.), rendered May 1, 1995, convicting him of robbery in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court’s charge to the jury regarding recent and exclusive possession of the fruits of a crime was erroneous because it failed to clarify that there were two permissible inferences of guilt which could be drawn from the facts. We disagree. As there was no…