People v. Griffin

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered March 2, 1984, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the trial court improperly allowed the prosecutrix to introduce evidence of the prior good acts of the deceased is without merit. The People’s theory was that the defendant intentionally killed the deceased because the defendant resented the changes for the better that the deceased brought about in the lives of the…