People v. Sellers

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Marlow, J.), rendered April 17, 1984, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for stabbing Roxy Aldred to death during a fight. In a statement given to the police, and admitted into evidence at the trial, the defendant stated that it was Aldred who introduced the knife into the fight and that he (the defendant) only used it in self-defense after it came into…