The only issue of concern on this appeal from defendant's conviction of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree (Penal Law, § 125.20) is the sufficiency of the evidence, which was exclusively circumstantial. We find that the facts adduced at trial were sufficient for the jury to conclude that they excluded to a moral certainty every reasonable hypothesis of innocence and that guilt was...
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