Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The County Court properly refused to charge the jury on manslaughter in the first degree as a lesser-included offense of the charge of murder in the second degree. There was no reasonable view of the evidence to support a finding that the defendant only intended to inflict serious physical injury on the victim (see People v Collins,
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