People v. Branch

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (O’Brien, J.), rendered May 23, 1985, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, the complainant testified that the defendant, and two other individuals, took her coat. A short while later the defendant and one of his accomplices were apprehended and the complainant’s coat was recovered from the defendant’s apartment. During the presentation of their case-in-chief, the People introduced the coat recovered from the defendant…