People v. Dixon

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (McKay, J.), rendered January 5, 1996, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and petit larceny, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The evidence adduced at trial established that money was taken from charity boxes located in the kitchen cabinet of a private dwelling. The boxes had been in the house for years and had never been removed from the house during that time. When representatives from the charities came to collect the donations, they simply took the money,…