People v. Dunkley

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Goodman, J.), rendered September 9, 1987, 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.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion *704in denying the defendant’s motion for an adjournment which was purportedly needed to secure the presence of two character witnesses. In the instant case, there was no showing of a diligent and good-faith attempt on the…