People v. Vargas

— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Vincent Vi-tale, J.), rendered March 22, 1989, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment from 12 to 24 years and IVi to 15 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted of shooting his common law wife. Although she survived a single bullet wound to her head, she suffered severe brain damage with a loss of memory and was unable to recall who had shot her, although she…