Opinion
October 28, 1996.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J.), rendered July 12, 1994, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Before: Bracken, J.P., Copertino, Altman and Hart, JJ.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court's circumstantial evidence charge adequately conveyed to the jury the principle that the evidence had to exclude beyond a reasonable doubt every hypothesis of innocence ( see, People v Ford, 66 NY2d 428; People v Sanchez, 61 NY2d 1022; People v Marsalis, 189 AD2d 897). The sentence imposed was not excessive ( see, People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).
The defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit.