People v. Jackson

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnick, J.), rendered January 19, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of three counts of *518robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 18 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Applying the court’s proper instruction on circumstantial evidence as it related solely to the element of the stealing of property, the jury was free to infer that the defendant or his unapprehended accomplice did steal money from the complainant’s cash register. The store owner’s testimony…