People v. Davis

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), rendered February 11, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence warranted the inference that when defendant fired a shot at the victim at close range, he intended to cause serious physical injury (see,…