People v. Drake

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (West, J.), rendered January 6, 1992, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial by virtue of the court’s allegedly improper charge to the jury regarding the chain of custody of the vials of crack cocaine recovered from his person. The defendant contends that the court improperly instructed the jury that the vials were, in fact,…