People v. Butler

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Balbach, J.), rendered April 10, 1985, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of marihuana in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the People failed to prove his intent to sell the cocaine found in his possession, which is an element of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree. Viewing the evidence adduced at trial in the light most…