People v. Williams

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of intentional and felony murder and three counts of robbery in the first degree. Defendant was sentenced to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment, the longest of which is 25 years to life. Defendant contends that County Court’s instruction erroneously permitted the jury to convict him of intentional murder without finding that defendant himself intended to kill. There is no merit to that contention. The test is whether, from the court’s charge as a whole, the jury would have understood the…