People v. Nieves

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered October 16, 1986, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Viewing the evidence adduced at the trial that the defendant possessed a loaded firearm not in his home or business in the light most favorable to the People (see, People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to support his conviction of criminal possession…