People v. Shellman

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stephen Barrett, J.), rendered December 19, 1991 which, after jury trial, convicted defendant of second degree murder and sentenced him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 17 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The prosecution’s eyewitness, defendant’s Gti-year-old son, testified that on the Christmas morning of 1989, as he opened gifts in the living room, he overheard his mother screaming in the bedroom. He then saw her emerge from the bedroom being beaten with the broken leg of a wooden chair by his father, defendant Bennie…