People v. Smallwood

Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed, in accordance with the following memorandum: There is no merit to defendant’s contention that, because he denied an intent to inflict serious physical injury during his plea allocution, the court erred by *1005accepting his guilty plea to the charge of assault in the first degree. An intent to inflict serious physical injury was readily inferable from defendant’s admissions concerning the beating of his wife (see, People v McGowen, 42 NY2d 905, rearg denied 42 NY2d 1015; People v Lopez, 127 AD2d 234, affd 71 NY2d 662). Although…