People v. Ross

—Judgment, Supreme *236Court, New York County (Jerome Hornblass, J.), rendered March 20, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was supported by legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence since the record demonstrates that in addition to engaging in a tug of war with the victim over the merchandise he had just stolen, defendant threatened to kill the victim and physically prevented him from calling the…