People v. Johnson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered April 19, 1994, convicting him of assault in the first degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

It was not error to deny the defendant’s request for a miss*661ing witness charge with respect to the two barbers who were present during the assault. The defendant failed to demonstrate that the missing witnesses, who knew the defendant as well as the complainants, "would naturally be…