People v. Watts

*301OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge Cooke.

A trial court need not charge a jury with respect to an accused’s proffered defense of justification if no view of the evidence establishes the basic elements of the defense. There was such a failure here, and defendant’s conviction should therefore be affirmed.

Defendant was convicted after a jury trial of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree arising out of the shooting of a woman on August 13,1977. He contends that the trial court’s refusal to charge the jury on the defense of justification violated his…