People v. Phillips

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dunkin, J.), rendered September 2, 1986, convicting him of (1) manslaughter in the first degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and (2) a violation of the Administrative Code of the City of New York § 436-5.0 (h) (1), upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

According to the testimony of the prosecution’s main witness, Major Thomas, the defendant, after having spent the day helping Thomas and the victim, Michael Edwards, replace the…