People v. Taylor

Judgment, Supreme Court, *176Bronx County (Fred Eggert, J.), rendered March 13, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree (Penal Law § 125.20 [1]) and sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term of 6 to 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

Two witnesses testified that after the deceased verbally threatened defendant, they observed defendant pull out a knife and stab the decedent five or six times. The jury rejected defendant’s claim of self-defense that during a struggle with the deceased he tried to push the knife out of the deceased’s hand causing it to…