Court Opinion

ID: 5943429
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 05:53:29.676009+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:47:20.535233
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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Howard Bell, J.), rendered October 5, 1989, which convicted defendant after a jury trial of assault in the second degree and sentenced him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 2 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.
The trial court permitted the People to amend a count in the indictment by inserting the word "serious” before the phrase "physical injury” in regard to the charge of violating Penal Law § 120.05 (4), finding that the word had been omitted because of a typographical error.
The factual allegations underlying the indictment clearly show that the People had in mind a theory that defendant recklessly caused serious physical injury; defendant was not, therefore, prejudiced by the amendment of the indictment to correct a typographical error, even though the correct Penal *301Law provision had been cited. (See, CPL 200.70 [1].) Concur— Sullivan, J. P., Wallach, Kupferman, Asch and Kassal, JJ.