People v. Boone

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Marlow, J.), rendered April 14, 1995, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion *428by admitting into evidence the gun turned over to the police by one of the witnesses to the incident in question, within hours after the defendant was seen in possession of the gun. The connection between the defendant and the gun was not so tenuous as to be improbable…