People v. Gonzalez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (O’Dwyer, J.), rendered July 8, 1986, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

*624Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A verdict on a multiple-count indictment is repugnant when a defendant is acquitted on one count which contains an essential element of another count on which he is convicted, thus negating a necessary element of the latter count (see, People v Hampton, 61 NY2d 963; People v Tucker, 55 NY2d 1, rearg denied 55 NY2d 1039).…