People v. Rollins

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Brill, J.), rendered August 9, 1989, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

As the defendant was walking his dog on a Brooklyn street late one evening, he was observed by three young men sitting on a garbage dumpster across the street from him. At least one of the men yelled at the defendant to stop his dog from urinating on the grass. What happened next was disputed at trial; either all three of the men, or only one of them,…