People v. Carpenter

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Plug, J.), rendered May 9, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree and unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find the defendant’s contention that the Supreme Court erred when it declined to give a charge on intoxication (Penal Law § 15.25) to be without merit. The evidence of intoxication was the defendant’s testimony that he had consumed 40 ounces of beer some time before he…