People v. Smith

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered November 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The hotel manager was properly permitted to testify as to the complainant’s description of the robber and to the fact that defendant was the only resident of this controlled-access residential hotel who could have met that description. The manager had personal knowledge of the appearance of all…