People v. Lawton

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fred Eggert, J.), rendered on June 15, 1987, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a prison term of 3 to 9 years, is unanimously affirmed.

The evidence adduced at trial reveals that on May 27, 1986, defendant hid in the shower of his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, which he had ceased sharing with her eight months earlier, and brutally attacked her with a hammer. The victim, who suffered a fractured cheekbone and various lacerations to her head, as well as a neighbor, who looked out her window…