People v. Morales

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered April 8, 1975, convicting defendant after a jury trial of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree and sentencing him to a term of 2 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed. Two police officers observed the defendant giving to various unidentified persons tinfoil packets in return *936for money. The officers approached the defendant, arrested him, and found on his person some eight tinfoil envelopes containing cocaine. The defendant asked the officers if they had observed him purchasing the cocaine moments before the arrest. The…