People v. Cornell

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (West, J.), rendered April 25, 1990, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There was evidence at the trial that the defendant obtained a gun, loaded it, and handed it to a friend, telling him to get *542the decedent out of the house. The gunman then shot the decedent several times at close range. This evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution…