People v. Wyche

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County, rendered December 14, 1979, upon a verdict convicting defendant of assault in the first degree. On March 6,1979, in a local bistro named Smitty’s Tavern in Elmira, New York, the defendant and one Alvin Roberts engaged in *1071a violent oral argument over the attentions of a female who had entered the tavern with Roberts. The altercation culminated in defendant’s plunging a hunting knife into the abdomen of Roberts. Thereafter, defendant was indicted for attempted murder in the second degree. He was convicted, after trial, of assault in…