People v. Gonzalez

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered May 11, 1978, convicting defendant of the crime of grand larceny in the third degree and sentencing him as a predicate felon, unanimously affirmed. We are satisfied that defendant’s guilt was established beyond a reasonable doubt and that the charge given by the court did not deny defendant a fair trial. However, we write only to make two observations concerning the court’s instructions to the jury: (1) It was unnecessary for the trial court to embellish in three pages the wording contained in the CPL (300.10, subd 2) relating to a…