People v. Dananel

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hall, J.), rendered February 27, 1991, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in permitting the victim to show the jury the scars on his chest and stomach, which were the result of the crime for which the defendant was being tried, since the purpose of that evidence was to demonstrate the seriousness of the…