People v. Campos

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Kleiman, J.), rendered October 30, 1987, convicting defendant after jury trial of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him as a predicate violent felon to a prison term of five to ten years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was found guilty of assault in the first degree on evidence that he struck Luis Nieves in the left arm with a machete, slicing down into the bone, while repeatedly screaming, "I’m going to kill you.”

Defendant was not entitled to a charge on assault in the second or third degrees as lesser included offenses of assault in…