People v. Niang (Papa)

The People of the State of New York,

against

Papa Niang, Defendant-Appellant.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Curtis Farber, J.), rendered August 17, 2017, convicting him, after a nonjury trial, of unlicensed general vending, and imposing sentence.

Judgment of conviction (Curtis Farber, J.), rendered August 17, 2017, affirmed.

The accusatory instrument was not jurisdictionally defective. The information - comprising the misdemeanor complaint and supporting deposition of the arresting police officer - alleged, in sum and substance,…