People v. Sledge

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Juviler, J.), rendered August 11, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the court did not err by declining to charge the jury that one of the People’s witnesses was, as a matter of law, an accomplice to felony murder. Although the witness in question was part of a group that participated in three earlier robberies, the witness’s presence at the…