People v. Holloman

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.), rendered November 17, 1993, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the court improperly sentenced him as a second felony offender based on his prior conviction in South Carolina. We disagree. The elements of the South Carolina purse-snatching statute pursuant to which the defendant was convicted are equivalent to the elements of the felony of grand larceny in the fourth…