People v. Rosario

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), rendered November 14, 1985, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was convicted of the fatal stabbing of Mary Morales on December 28, 1984, in the kitchen of the Brooklyn apartment he shared with the victim.

The testimony elicited at the trial revealed that earlier in the day on the date of the crime the defendant was drunk, had been quarreling with the victim, and had threatened to kill her. The key…