People v. Barrentine

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jones, J.), rendered August 26, 1981, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

Contrary to defendant’s assertion, the record does not contain overwhelming evidence that he was intoxicated at the time he stabbed his victim. Although defendant testified that he had consumed a "little nip” at a bar prior to the stabbing, *441he specifically denied being intoxicated in a statement made to an Assistant District Attorney after the crime. There was also…