People v. McBride

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered August 7, 1989f convicting him of assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s conviction of assault in the first degree arose out of the shooting of a man on September 24, 1988, which left the complainant paralyzed from the waist down. The complainant had known the defendant for several years and, in addition to his unequivocal identification of the defendant as the perpetrator, there was an eyewitness to the…