People v. Green

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered January 4, 1978, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. Although we affirm, we note that the trial court’s instructions to the jury on the question of intent included the statement that "a man is presumed to intend the natural consequences of his act unless the act was done under circumstances or under conditions which precluded the existence of such an intent.” Read as a whole, the court’s jury instructions made it abundantly clear that the…