People v. Johnson

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered March 28, 1978, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree (two counts), grand larceny in the second degree, driving without a license, speeding, and disobeying traffic signals, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment modified, (1) on the law, by reducing the conviction of manslaughter in the second degree to one of criminally negligent homicide, and vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and (2) on the law and as a matter of…