People v. Wynn

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We reject defendant’s contention that there was a variance between the allegations in the second count of the indictment and the People’s proof at trial. The second count, charging robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [4]), alleges that defendant “displayed what appeared to be a pistol, revolver or other firearm, to wit a rifle.” Proof at trial that the firearm displayed by defendant was a sawed-off rifle did not vary from that allegation so as to violate “defendant’s right to fair notice of the charges or his right to have those charges preferred by the Grand Jury rather than by the prosecutor at trial” (People v Grega, 72 NY2d 489 , 496; cf., People v Alexander, 42 Misc 2d 927 , 929-930, affd 24 AD2d 934 ). Nor did the reference by County Court to the sawed-off rifle in its instructions to the jury on the second count result in an impermissible amendment of the indictment (see, People v Spann, 56 NY2d 469 , 473).

The court properly denied the request of defendant for a missing witness charge with respect to two men who were with