People v. Holcombe

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County, rendered August 8, 1978, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the sixth degree and bail jumping in the first degree. On June 7, 1975, as the defendant was leaving a motel at Elmira, New York, he was apprehended by the police. Their search of an ice chest that the defendant was carrying disclosed a substantial quantity of marihuana and he was arrested. Subsequent thereto he was arraigned on a felony complaint charging him with criminal possession of a…