People v. Chesebro

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Monroe, J.), rendered September 11, 1981, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of assault in the second degree and resisting arrest. Defendant’s conviction has its genesis in an altercation with two policemen outside an Elmira bar on the evening of April 8,1981. Despite the bartender’s admonition to refrain from removing liquor bottles from behind the bar, defendant, in the bartender’s absence, apparently continued to do so. The bartender then asked defendant to leave and when he refused the police were called;…