The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Appellant urges that his conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law, § 265.03) should be reversed because the trial court charged the jury without more that "it is a fundamental rule of evidence that a person is presumed to intend the natural consequences of his acts" (cf. Sandstrom v Montana,
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