People v. Comer

Appeal by the defendant from a *546judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Juviler, J.), rendered February 18, 1986, convicting him of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On appeal the defendant argues that the People failed to disprove his defense of justification beyond a reasonable doubt (see, People v Reyes, 116 AD2d 602, lv denied 67 NY2d 949). The complainant, Charles Briggs, testified that the defendant attacked him with a razor after Briggs had verbally…