People v. Hartzog

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Ohlig, J.), rendered March 31, 1998, convicting him of assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the court improperly interjected itself into the proceedings is unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, without merit. The court’s questioning of witnesses facilitated an orderly progression of *493the trial and the minimal interjections were proper (see, People v Yut Wai Tom, 53 NY2d 44).

The court did not…