People v. Francis

Judgement of the Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J.), rendered on December 21, 1988, convicting defendant, following a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from three to six years, is affirmed.

*343The evidence presented herein, when viewed, as it must be, in the light most favorable to the prosecution (People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), was legally sufficient to enable the members of the jury to have determined that the essential elements of the crime had…