People v. Barnes

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.), rendered August 17, 1988, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Upon an indictment in which he was charged with murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]), the defendant was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, for stabbing a woman with whom he was living.

The defendant contends that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, that the court erred in permitting the People to…