People v. Cornish

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Fisher, J.), rendered January 29, 1991, convicting him of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On appeal, the defendant contends that the People failed to *640prove beyond a reasonable doubt the mens fea required for assault in the first degree and that the Supreme Court improperly imposed an excessive sentence.

The defendant’s contention that the evidence is legally insufficient to support…