People v. Vasile

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J.), rendered August 9, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was supported by legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490). Defendant’s intent to kill the victim was demon*222strated by defendant’s prior threat to kill the victim, by the nature of the assault, in which defendant approached the victim from the rear and struck him several times with a…