182 A.D.2d 1108 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1992
Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs and matter remitted to Monroe County Family Court for further proceedings in accordance with the following Memorandum: Respondent was charged with conduct which, if he were an adult, would constitute the crime of assault in the second degree (see, Penal Law § 120.05 [1]). Neither the factual allegations of the petition, together with those in the supporting affidavits, nor the evidence at the hearing substantiated the elements of the crime of assault in the second degree. The allegations and evidence were insufficient to prove that complainant sustained serious physical injury and that respondent intended to inflict serious physical injury. They were sufficient, however, to establish that respondent committed an act which, if done by an adult, would constitute assault in the third degree, a lesser included offense of assault in the second degree (see, Penal Law § 120.00 [1]; § 120.05 [1]; Matter of Dwight M., 175 AD2d 594, lv granted 78 NY2d 863).
The facts, as alleged and as testified to at the hearing, were that respondent punched complainant once in the jaw with an
Therefore, the fact-finding order is modified to recite that respondent did an act which, if done by an adult, would constitute the crime of assault in the third degree as defined by section 120.00 (1) of the Penal Law, the order of disposition is vacated, and the matter is remitted to Family Court for a new dispositional hearing and order. (Appeal from Order of Monroe County Family Court, Bonadio, J. — Juvenile Delinquency.) Present — Callahan, J. P., Boomer, Lawton, Boehm and Davis, JJ.