People v. Cardwell

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), rendered December 18, 1995, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was charged in the indictment with murder in the second degree. The court charged the jury on manslaughter in the first degree as a lesser included offense. The defendant contends that the court erred in denying his request for a charge on manslaughter in the second degree as an additional lesser included offense of murder in the…