People v. Stoll

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J., at hearing; Alvin Schlesinger, J., at trial), rendered May 12, 1988, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of assault in the second degree *172(Penal Law § 120.05 [2]) and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 2 Vi to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant admitted slashing the complainant, Michael Francis, in the chest. The wound required six internal and 35 external stitches even though Francis was wearing a three-quarter-length leather coat, a heavy sweater and…