People v. Peter

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Rosenblatt, J.), rendered July 29, 1981, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that the instant prosecution for intentional murder was barred by the statutory prohibition against double jeopardy embodied in CPL 40.20. The record indicates that the decedent, the defendant’s wife, died several days after the defendant entered a plea of guilty to first degree assault in connection with the shooting of the same…