People v. Seshadri

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Kowtna, J.), rendered June 12, 1996, convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was indicted with three codefendants. The trial court granted his motion for severance to the extent of allowing him to be tried with one codefendant. Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court properly refused to sever his trial from that of his remaining codefendant. As a general rule, severance is compelled only “where…